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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Google AI researcher's exit sparks ethics, bias concerns
By MATT O'BRIEN SAN FRANCISCO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Sh1mon M4sada
"don't be evil, and get caught"
Can't say how google can defend themselves nowadays when they're selling personal info to marketers (in real time) so they can rip me off, and worse still block my way to cheap deals to force me to pay higher prices.
sangetsu03
The article paints this as a racial matter, having to mention, two times (in case you missed the first mention), that Gebru is black. Yet in the article it is apparent that Gebru and Google parted ways due to differences in opinion.
The problem with working for someone else is that to be paid, you have to do the job you are assigned to do. We are all required to do things we don’t enjoy doing, that is called “life.” If you don’t want to do what your employer wants you to do, find a new one, or become self-employed.
But even when you are self employed, you become the servant of your customers and clients. Once again, that is life.
fxgai
She should have had more tact in how she communicated. Comments she made seemed to threaten other employees.
For its part Google’s decision makers ought have given her a chance to cool it, rather than rejecting her ultimatums and making out she had resigned immediately. Or simply fire her immediately if concerned about other employees.
The research was published wasn’t it? How is that censorship? But the research didn’t go through normal Google processes, according to Google, and I haven’t seen that denied.
If they were racist they wouldn’t have hired her in the first place.
Seems like she had gone a little rogue in the sense she thought she could do what she liked.
I am not sure what is wrong with “defensiveness”?
lostrune2
Google needs to hire an "ombudsman"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_ombudsman