Google takes action against another outspoken A.I. ethics researcher

> The company said in a statement that its systems had automatically locked Mitchell out of the corporate network after "our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts. We explained this to the employee earlier today. We are actively investigating this matter as part of standard procedures to gather additional details."

> Mitchell has been a steadfast defender of her former colleague Gebru, publicly criticizing both Google's treatment of her, and the company's poor record on diversity and inclusion.

Interesting. Not enough info in the article to say why she was locked out, but it seems like something pretty odd is going on at Google, where at minimum they have bred an environment with a lack of trust.

To have Google's incident with Gebru, and then now possibly her co-lead of ethics in AI both in such a short period of time is odd. That with another recruiter voicing concerns on google not walking the walk seems like a real disconnect.