Google AI ethicist says she was fired after challenging company on diversity

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The co-leader of Google's Ethical Artificial Intelligence team is leaving. Timnit Gebru had criticized Google over its treatment of Black workers.

When 20,000 Google employees walked out in protest a year ago, it birthed a new era of tech workers banding together to influence their companies’ actions.The research paper in question deals with possible ethical issues of large language models, a field of research being pursued by OpenAI, Google and others. Gebru said she didn’t know why Google had concerns about the paper, which she said was approved by her manager and submitted to others at Google for comment.

Gebru, an alumni of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is one of the leading voices in the ethical use of AI. She is well-known for her work on a Gebru is “the reason many next generation engineers, data scientists and more are inspired to work in tech,” wrote Rumman Chowdhury, who formerly served as the head of Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence and now runs a company she founded called Parity.

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She said she’d leave if they didn’t meet her “conditions”. Google said they wouldn’t meet 2 conditions so, see ya later. If she’s so awesome she should start her own company.

Fired for being stupid. Google already tried to prove they're racists/misogynist, they accidentally proved the opposit. Study found they pay new female employees higher salaries, also hire 25% women which sounds bad, until you realize engineering graduates are only 25% female

I would not doubt it at all. Google has become less interested in improving life as they grow. These things can be cyclical. They need more decent and reasonable leadership most likely. =

MAYBE .

That's a temporary job!

Fired4Truth

Can't have anyone speak truth right.

Wish i was black so i could blame all my failures on other people

She didn't like that the AI was too good at its job of finding patterns.

cool

good

No, her manager accepted her resignation.

Diversity is racism it values skin color over ability and skill

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