20 February 2021

If your corporate Code of Conduct...

...has to actually state, "Don't be Evil"... maybe something is inherently off...
On Friday, researcher Margaret Mitchell said she had been fired from the company’s AI lab, Google Brain, where she previously co-led a group working on ethical approaches to artificial intelligence.
Her former co-leader of that group, Timnit Gebru, departed Google in December. More than 2,600 Google employees signed a letter protesting Gebru’s treatment.
Alex Hanna, a member of Google’s ethical AI group still at the company, tweeted that Google was “running a smear campaign” against Gebru and Mitchell.
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