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Google Employees Say Scientist’s Ouster Was ‘Unprecedented Research Censorship’ – NPR
The firing of a leading Black researcher on the ethics of artificial intelligence is reigniting debate over Google’s treatment of employees who speak out, particularly…
Former Google AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru speaks here in September 2018. Gebru says she was abruptly fired from the tech giant after a dispute involving a research paper.
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Hundreds of Google employees have published an open letter following the firing of a colleague who is an accomplished scientist known for her research into the ethics of artificial intelligence and her work showing racial bias in facial recognition technology.
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