More Than 1,500 Google Employees Sign Petition Condemning Firing of Black AI Ethicist Timnit Gebru
More than 1,500 Google employees and some 2,000 academic, industry, and civil society supporters have signed a petition protesting the termination of Timnit Gebru, a Black scientist and artificial intelligence ethicist who claims that she was fired by Google after she raised concerns about the company’s diversity protocols. “We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with…
