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Top AI ethics researcher says Google fired her

By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin on Dec 7, 2020 6:31AM
Top AI ethics researcher says Google fired her

Company denies it.

A top Google scientist on ethical artificial intelligence says she was fired after criticising the company's diversity efforts, a claim the Alphabet unit disputed, in the latest brush-up between the internet giant and worker activists. Timnit Gebru said on Twitter she was fired on Wednesday ...

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By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin
Dec 7 2020
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