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Timnit Gebru: Google and big tech are ‘institutionally racist’ – BBC News
The AI academic at the centre of a race row at Google speaks to BBC News.
By James ClaytonNorth America technology reporter
media captionWATCH: Timnit Gebru accuses Google and the wider tech sector of institutional racism
Timnit Gebru, a highly influential artificial-intelligence computer scientist, is at the centre of a race row that has engulfed Google’s AI research workforce and raised passions beyond.
She says she was fired by Google after it took issue with an academic paper she had co-authored.
And Dr Gebru and her supporters believe institutional racism played…
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