As Google Fires Second AI Ethics Researcher, Dispute Over Diversity Grows
The two researchers had called for greater diversity and inclusion among Google s research staff and expressed concern that the firm was starting to censor papers critical of its products.
Representative Image. A Google logo is shown at one of the company s office complexes in Irvine, California on July 27, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Mike Blake
World20/Feb/2021
Alphabet Inc’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, they both said, a move that fanned company divisions on academic freedom and diversity that were on display since its December dismissal of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru.