Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 15.56 EST
Two Google engineers have quit over the treatment of Timnit Gebru, a prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher whose exit from the company sparked widespread outrage in the tech industry.
David Baker, an engineering director focused on user safety, left Google last month after 16 years because Gebru’s departure “extinguished my desire to continue as a Googler”, he said in a letter seen by Reuters. Baker added: “We cannot say we believe in diversity, and then ignore the conspicuous absence of many voices from within our walls.”
Vinesh Kannan, a software engineer, said on Wednesday that he had also left the company this week because Google had mistreated Gebru and April Christina Curley, a Black recruiter who has said she was wrongly fired from Google last year. “They were wronged,” Kannan said in a tweet.
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Nicole Tinson is founder of HBCU 20x20, an organization that places Historically Black Colleges and Universities students and graduates into companies like Accenture, SpaceX, and Intel. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs list in 2020.
Tinson says she is dropping Google as a HBCU 20x20 partner after a Twitter thread by a former Google recruiter went viral, alleging racism and discrimination at the tech giant.
She asked Google to partner with her company in 2017, but it declined. After the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, Tinson says Google reached out to her to get the partnership started.
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