Backlash intensifies: Pichai’s promises do little to quell outrage over Timnit Gebru’s firing

The firing of an AI researcher wouldn’t normally get a response from one of the world’s most powerful CEOs or coverage from mainstream media. But Timnit Gebru’s sudden departure from Google has turned simmering discontent about diversity and ethics at the company into an eruption. Gebru, who was co-leader of Google’s Ethical AI team, is a widely-respected researcher on algorithmic bias, who’s best known for a landmark study that exposed race and gender biases in facial recognition systems. But a paper she recently co-authored on large large-scale language models (LLMs) — which are used in many Google products — sparked a dispute with her…

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