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Google faces fire from over 1,400 employees after AI researcher’s exit – The New Indian Express
Highly-regarded AI scholar Timnit Gebru announced she was fired. Google told employees she resigned. The exit of Gebru, who is Black, also raised further doubts…
Prominent artificial intelligence scholar Timnit Gebru helped improve Google’s public image as a company that elevates Black computer scientists and questions harmful uses of AI technology.
But internally, Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, was not shy about voicing doubts about those commitments – until she was pushed out of the company this week in a dispute over a research paper examining the societal dangers of an emerging branch of AI.
Gebru announced on Twitter she was fired. Google…
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