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Google fires remaining Ethical AI team leader, months after abrupt departure of her colleague

The remaining leader of Google’s Ethical AI team said she was fired on Friday, hours after the company’s top AI executive apologized for its handling of the abrupt departure of Timnit Gebru, her former fellow team leader. In a tweet Friday afternoon, Margaret Mitchell wrote, “I’m fired.” Mitchell, a Google researcher who founded the Ethical

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Google rethinks how it handles ‘sensitive’ employee exits after controversy over AI researcher’s departure

Google plans to change its approach for handling how certain employees leave the company after finishing a months-long review of the abrupt and controversial departure of prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru. Jeff Dean, Google’s head of AI, announced several policy changes in an internal memo Friday, a copy of which was obtained by

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