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Renowned AI researcher says Google abruptly fired her, drawing industry-wide criticism – CNBC
Timnit Gebru, the technical co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google, tweeted on Wednesday that the company fired her after refusing to accede to two demands.
Timnit Gebru, a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google, tweeted on Wednesday that the company abruptly fired her, and drew 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…
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