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Google research manager Samy Bengio, who oversaw the company’s AI ethics group until a controversy led to the ouster of two female leaders, resigned on Tuesday to pursue other opportunities. Bengio, who managed hundreds of researchers in the Google Brain team, announced his departure in an email to staff that was obtained by Bloomberg. His last day will be April 28. An expert in a type of AI known as machine… Source link

On Monday night, April Christina Curley, a diversity recruiter at Google, announced on Twitter that she had been fired in September. She started at Google in 2014, helping the company improve its relationships with historically Black colleges and universities. Before taking the job, Curley tweeted that the company had not “hired a single HBCU student into a tech role.” Six years later, Curley tweeted that she had “brought in over 300 Black and Brown students from HBCUs who were hired into… Source link