that the company abruptly fired her, drawing widespread statements of support from other Google employees and tech workers throughout the industry.
Gebru, who was the technical co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google and worked on algorithmic bias and data mining, is a well-known advocate for diversity in technology and is the co-founder of a community of black researchers called Black in AI. She has been a vocal critic of tech companies' treatment of Black workers and hadGebru claims she received a dismissal email written by someone named Megan who reports to AI head Jeff Dean.
Gebru said her main corporate account had been cut off while she was on vacation. "I hadn't resigned — I had asked for simple conditions first and said I would respond when I'm back from vacation," tweeted Gebru.Gebru sent to colleagues, according to a report by Casey Newton, stated that superiors suddenly asked her to retract a research paper while presenting almost no information about what was wrong with it or chances to defend herself.
"As a result, we are accepting your resignation immediately, effective today. We will send your final paycheck to your address in Workday. When you return from your vacation, PeopleOps will reach out to you to coordinate the return of Google devices and assets."
My guess is CNBC learned she was fired and didn't do any investigation but really wanted to publish something quick and this article is the result. Good work CNBC.
Really do enjoy reading about these big tech companies destroying themselves from the inside out.
She had certain things she wabted NEVER sent them to management but instead to co workers clearly there is somthing fishy here.
Why not? Does she think no one can fire her? Ms Indispensable.
this story is pointless if you don't say what her damands were specifically.