Google fires AI researcher Timnit Gebru over critical email

Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285502 (241 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25289445 (62 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25292386 (729 comments)

And now this story makes the news cycle. Where none would cover the fact that she asked for identities of reciewers who rejected her work. We also dont know that Google is in the clear. Most probably not. But the one-sided coverage will continue. And then we wonder why we live in a polarized world.

If Google doesn't have the time to provide comment to the New York Times on the story, I think it's pretty clear why we are only hearing the one side. They had the opportunity to state things from their point of view and decided not to do so.

Agreed but Google doesn't owe NYT a story when they have just released the raw correspondence. But this does prove how incompetent their PR departments. Ethically though there's no grounds for Google to issue a press release when theres no news.

Revolution eats her children. Damore was right.

AI Ethicist, not researcher

AI ethics researcher, still an AI researcher.

E.g.: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a...