The author complains about the paucity of black women at Google but does not mention what percent of bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in computer science are awarded to black women. One should not expect the fraction of Google technologists to be much higher.
"I’m following Timnit and joining her at the Distributed AI Research Institute as Director of Research, effective tomorrow."
I hope the employees enjoy their new boss.
If I was on that team I'd be outta there quicksmart.