Google Employees Say Scientist’s Ouster Was ’Unprecedented Research Censorship’
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Hundreds of Google employees have published an open letter following the firing of a colleague who is an accomplished scientist known for her research into the ethics of artificial intelligence and her work showing racial bias in facial recognition technology. That scientist, Timnit Gebru, helped lead Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence team until Tuesday. She says she was forced out of the company following a dispute over a research paper and an email she subsequently sent to peers (...)
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