I was disappointed to hear the news that @timnitGebru was fired from her job as co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google effective immediately.
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334352694664957952
There are a lot of reasons for my disappointment about @timnitGebru's firing but the most prominent one is representation matters. I get that things are not always going to work out but I like to see our leaders and pioneers treated well.
I know that this kind of unceremonious firing is business as usual in tech but presumably having an Ethical Team at all suggests a commitment (or at least an interest in committing) to not doing business as usual.
Ethics doesn't thrive in darkness so hopeful more information will emerge soon. I'm generally cynical of ethical expressions by corporations (whom I consider psychologically similar to sociopaths) so this outcome is not entirely surprising to me.
However things turn out, I'm sure @timnitGebru will land on her feet. Google needs her more than she needs them. I'm not being snarky. This is just a fact.
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