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Google engineers quit after the company fired its star AI ethics researcher
Timnit Gebru s exit has sparked an outcry at Google
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Two Google engineers have quit the company over the firing of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, whose controversial termination in December sparked an internal backlash about ethics and diversity.
David Baker, who led the engineering team for Google Trust and Safety, said he was resigning after more than 16 years because Gebruâs departure had âextinguished [his] desire to continue as a Googler.â
Software engineer Vinesh Kannan has also left the company. He tweeted that Googleâs treatment of Gebru and diversity recruiter Abril Christina Curley âhad crossed a personal red line.â
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Two Google engineers have quit over the treatment of Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of the ethical AI team. David Baker, an engineering director, said Gebru’s dismissal “extinguished” his desire to remain at the company. Vinesh Kannan, a software engineer, said he was leaving because Gebru and April Christina Curley, a diversity recruiter, were “wronged.” The news was first reported by
“We cannot say we believe in making a more understanding, informed world, and then ignore how our products amplify biases,” Baker wrote in a farewell note to colleagues. “We cannot say we believe in diversity, and then ignore the conspicuous absence of many voices from within our walls.”