Google AI researcher's exit sparks ethics, bias concerns

Google AI researcher's exit sparks ethics, bias concerns

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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 this week in a dispute over a research paper examining the societal dangers of an emerging branch of AI.

Google AI researcher's exit sparks ethics, bias concerns

Dec 4, 2020, 10:25pm UTC
https://apnews.com/00c1dab0a727456df9e5ef9c6160c792 > 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 this week in a dispute over a research paper examining the societal dangers of an emerging branch of AI.