Prominent AI Researcher Says Google Fired Her After Dispute Over Her Work, Impolitic Email
Timnit Gebru, a well-known critic of AI, says she was told not to publish research; Google says the research didn’t meet standards
A prominent artificial-intelligence researcher says she was fired by Google after she refused to retract a research paper and complained about the company in an email to colleagues.
Computer scientist Timnit Gebru, the co-head of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, says her departure appears to have been precipitated by her email, sent last week to a wide group inside…
