Google AI researcher’s exit sparks ethics, bias concerns

Gebru helped improve Google's public image as a company that elevates Black computer scientists and questions harmful uses of AI technology, but has since been pushed out of the company in a dispute over a research paper examining the societal dangers of an emerging branch of AI. — AP

Prominent artificial intelligence scholar Timnit Gebru helped improve Google’s public image as a company that elevates Black computer scientists and questions harmful uses of AI technology.

But internally, Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, was not shy about voicing doubts about those commitments – until she was pushed out of the company last week in a dispute over a research paper examining the societal dangers of an emerging branch of AI.