Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

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Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

Sign of ongoing internal conflict.

An engineering director and a software developer have quit Google over the dismissal of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts at the search giant over diversity and ethics. David Baker, a director focused on user safety, left Google last month after 16 years because ...

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