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A second Google A.I. researcher says the company fired her:
Two months after the jarring departure of a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google, a second A.I. researcher at the company said she was fired after criticizing the way it has treated employees who were working on ways to address bias and toxicity in its artificial intelligence systems.
Margaret Mitchell, known as Meg, who was one of the leaders of Google's Ethical A.I. team, sent a tweet on Friday afternoon saying merely: "I'm fired."
Google confirmed that her employment had been terminated. "After conducting a review of this manager's conduct, we confirmed that there were multiple violations of our code of conduct," read a statement from the company.
The statement went on to claim that Dr. Mitchell had violated the company's security policies by lifting confidential documents and private employee data from the Google network. The company said previously that Dr. Mitchell had tried to remove such files, the news site Axios reported last month.
[...] Dr. Mitchell's post on Twitter comes less than two months after Timnit Gebru, the other leader of the Ethical A.I. team at Google, said that she had been fired by the company after criticizing its approach to minority hiring as well as its approach to bias in A.I. In the wake of Dr. Gebru's departure from the company, Dr. Mitchell strongly and publicly criticized Google's stance on the matter.
[...] Google announced in a blog post yesterday that an executive at the company, Marian Croak, who is Black, will oversee a new group inside the company dedicated to responsible A.I.
Apart from the sanitized press statements, does anybody know why this is happening at Google?
Also at: Wired, WION Web Team, and Reuters
Margaret Mitchell's entries on Wikipedia and LinkedIn.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @06:22PM (13 children)
A Google spokesperson said Margaret Mitchell's account "had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @07:19PM (4 children)
That would get you fired at any company.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @07:20PM (3 children)
Or even killed in Nazi Germany. Godwin FTW! /thread
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @07:38PM (2 children)
Gina Carano, is that you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @07:58PM (1 child)
Probably Joe Biden. He says wacked out crap all the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @08:39PM
Nah, 7pm is way past his bedtime.
(Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Sunday February 21 2021, @07:46PM (6 children)
Here's a source from that, from about a month ago: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/01/20/google-locks-ai-researchers-computer-access.html [bizjournals.com]
She was probably in the process of something radical and woke. This is from Mitchell's letter relating to the Gerbu firing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ERi2crDToYhYjEjxRoOzO-uOUeLgdoLPfnx1JOErg2w/edit [google.com]
And her twitter feed: https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai [twitter.com]
Her posts tend focus on race in that familiar way of the extremely white and extremely woke. Familiar words such as: exhausted, trauma. Frequent reference to racism and sexism: https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai/status/1361456286974418946 [twitter.com]
Not so veiled threats illuminating the toxicity of wokeism -- "bow to our demands or things get worse": https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai/status/1362577042722619393 [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @11:12PM (2 children)
If only we could fire all non-productive troublemakers this easily.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @11:27PM
They missed a trick - she could have become a BEAST in human resources. So your diversity statement is only 6 pages? And only 1 day of community outreach per week? Bullshit are you getting that promotion.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @12:06AM
Another word for troublemaker is disruptive. Silly Valley wants to disrupt everyone else but doesn’t want anyone to blow the whistle on them. Fucking hypocrites.
She was pushing against bias in AI, same as the previous woman fired for the same reason. Seems only women want to address this problem - the privileged white men see this bias as a feature, not a bug.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2021, @11:54PM
It amazes me that people still don't get it. All of these "Social Justice" people are spies. The pissed-off Gamergaters tracked them down to the Pakistani operation [deepfreeze.it] that launched them all, their desk in the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office [archive.org], their Marxist-Islamist support network [deepfreeze.it], and their Rothschild financier [archive.org]. It turns out that the whole US government was a proxy for Alwaleed and Al-Thani for eight years [catbox.moe] while the UK was even worse [catbox.moe].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @12:01AM
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday February 24 2021, @03:55AM
This is all completely true. What blows my mind is how often people like this can say the right words while remaining completely oblivious to their meaning.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @12:07AM
Wait what? Gone with the wind again?