Stefan Mileschin

Google denies it

Timnit Gebru, one of the best-known AI researchers today and co-lead of an AI ethics team at Google, said she was fired for sending an email to "non-management employees that was inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager".

She said Google AI employees who report to her were emailed and told that she accepted her resignation when she did not offer it.

Apparently Gebru sent the email in question to the Google Brain Women and Allies listserv. In it, Gebru expressed frustration with the lack of progress in hiring women at Google and lack of accountability for failure to make progress. She said was told not to publish a piece of research and advised employees to no longer fill out diversity paperwork because it didn't matter. No mention is made of resignation.

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