Google sacked co-leader in ethical AI via email

Timnit Gebru, co-leader of the team Google’s ethical artificial intelligence, said she was fired for sending an email that management considered “incompatible with the expectations of a Google manager“.

The content of the email he sent to his colleagues in Google Brain Women and Allies, a messaging group for company investigators, which he says led to his dismissal.

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Gebru published on Wednesday evening, in a series of tweets, that could not share the original email for which she believed she was fired because your business account has been blocked. He suggested the dispute stemmed from a disagreement over an investigative document, but did not disclose details.

Graduated from Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Gebru is one of the main voices of the ethical use of artificial intelligence. She is known for her work on a landmark 2018 study that showed how the facial recognition software misidentified black women by up to 35% of the time, when technology worked almost precisely on white men.

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There has also been an open criticism of the lack of diversity and unequal treatment of black workers in tech companies, in particular Alphabet Inc., and stated that he believed that his dismissal was trying to send a message to the rest of Google employees so that they do not speak.

Google representatives, based in Mountain View, California, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday night. Business representatives in Paris and Brussels said Thursday morning that they would not immediately comment.

Under fire

In the tweets, Gebru suggested that had made specific requests to Google and that he would resign if the company could not meet them. Google said it could not agree to all of his terms and that his dismissal was effective immediately, his tweets explained.

Gebru did not immediately respond to a request for further information on Wednesday evening.

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Google, along with other US tech giants such as Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc.have been criticized by the government for accusations of bias and discrimination, and were asked about their practices at various committee hearings in Washington.

Gebru was an unusual source of public criticism within the company. In August, he told Bloomberg News that Black Google employees who speak out are criticizedeven when the company presents them as examples of its commitment to diversity.

She recounted how her colleagues and managers tried to control the tone of her demands, apologize for harassment or racist behavior and they ignored their concerns.

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