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Welcome back to Human Capital, where I break down the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor in tech. This week, Twitter dropped its latest diversity report and Tesla released its first one ever. Meanwhile, Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized for the way things went down with Dr. Timnit Gebru, a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence ethics. Sign up here to get this as a weekly newsletter in your inbox every Friday at 1 p.m. Google’s Sundar Pichai will… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the controversial departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru in an email to staff on Wednesday. “We need to accept responsibility for the fact that a prominent Black, female leader with immense talent left Google unhappily,” he wrote. News of the email was first published by Axios. While Pichai did not say Gebru was fired as she and many others have claimed, he promised to review the steps that led to her leaving the company. “We need to… Source link

Google senior fellow Jeff Dean speaks at a 2017 event in China. Source: Chris Wong | Google A group of current and former Google employees who started a petition supporting departed researcher Timnit Gebru is disputing an executive’s account of her departure. In a blog post titled “Setting the Record Straight,” Gebru’s colleagues and petitioners claim she did not resign, and point to inconsistencies in Google AI Chief Jeff Dean’s statements, including his contention that Google’s process for… Source link

Employees from Google and other organizations are asking Google for answers about how it handled the departure of renown researcher Timnit Gebru in an online petition that had more than 2,000 signatures as of Friday afternoon. Gebru, a well-known artificial intelligence researcher, technical co-lead of Google’s “Ethical AI” team and vocal critic of tech companies’ treatment of Black workers, tweeted Wednesday night that her corporate account had been abruptly shut off after she discussed… Source link

Google officials did not respond to requests for comment. Gebru also did not respond to requests, but in an interview Thursday with Bloomberg said Google’s actions represented “the most fundamental silencing.” Gebru said Wednesday that she had been fired by Jeff Dean, the head of Google’s AI division, for an email she had sent to Brain Women and Allies, a mailing list for researchers on the company’s AI team known as Google Brain. Her dismissal threatens to reignite anger over… Source link

AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru. Kimberly White | Getty Images Timnit Gebru, a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google, tweeted on Wednesday that the company abruptly fired her, drawing widespread statements of support from other Google employees and tech workers throughout the industry. Gebru, who was the technical co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google and worked on algorithmic bias and data mining, is a well-known advocate for diversity in technology and is the… Source link

Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead of Google’s ethical artificial intelligence team, said in a series of tweets on Wednesday that she had been fired by the tech giant. She claims she was terminated over an email sent to an internal company group. Gebru’s reports were told she offered her resignation, but Gebru says management jumped the gun. Gebru was told that aspects of an email she sent to employees were “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.” Are you… Source link