Apple Hires AI Researcher Who Quit Google During Ethics Scandal Stephanie Keith/Getty
4 May 2021
Apple has reportedly hired a former Google AI veteran who quit the company amidst a scandal over the company’s firing of two female AI ethics researchers.
Engadget reports that Google AI veteran Samy Bengio has joined Apple after quitting Google in protest of the company’s treatment of two female AI ethics researchers. Bengio will reportedly lead a new AI research unit at Apple where he will join multiple former Google employees and Apple’s current VP of machine learning and AI strategy, John Giannandrea.
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Trillium Asset Management owns around $140 million worth of Alphabet stock.
The move comes after internal disputes between employees and managers spilled into public view.
A prominent shareholder in Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has called on the search giant to introduce better protections for whistleblower employees.
Trillium Asset Management, which reportedly owns around $140 million worth of Alphabet stock, filed a shareholder resolution calling on the company to better workers that speak out against their managers.
The resolution, first reported by The Verge, calls on Alphabet s board of directors to consider a third-party review of its current measures.
Whistleblower protections: Alphabet shareholder wants policy review
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San Francisco, April 7 : Google s abrupt firing of prominent Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics researcher Timnit Gebru late last year and reports of the company sacking more employees later has now led an Alphabet shareholder to push for adoption of policies for better whistleblower protections.
Trillium Asset Management has filed a shareholder resolution asking the board of directors for review of current policies by a third party, The Verge reported on Tuesday. Reporting suggests that many Google employees who have resigned or been fired . publicly report retaliation after voicing human rights implications of company practices, including systemic workplace racism and sexism, the resolution reads.
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