https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/tech/google-timnit-gebru-ethical-ai-letter/index.html The demands in the letter include the removal of a Google vice president, Megan Kacholia, from the team's management chain; for transparency surrounding Gebru's departure; and for Google's head of AI, Jeff Dean, and Kacholia to apologize for how Gebru was treated. It also calls for the company to offer Gebru a new, higher-level position, to commit publicly to the integrity of research conducted at Google, and to guarantee it won't harm any workers who advocated for Gebru.
It’s not college kids. The working world has very different rules.
People have said that for decades but no, they've managed to turn the working world into a place controlled by Intersectionality.
Already got rid of the "don't be evil" might as well get rid of this ethics team
This is pretty standard right? Delay and deflect till agitators leave.
"said it was sent on behalf of her team" I wonder how the author would treat any of his teammates that don't agree
Exactly! Not everyone is in a situation where they can afford to put their career/life on the line for a cause. I wonder if Google will let the whole team go. :-( Or be like Coinbase's CEO, Brian Armstrong and let people who don't align with company values go. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/10/01/coinbase-wont-allow-discussions-of-politics-and-social-causes-at-work-if-employees-dont-like-it-theyre-free-to-leave/?sh=963c37a74590
Google can't do coinbase. Read a letter congressmen wrote to Google CEO. It doesn't say Timnit should get her job back and glosses over a lot of things, to me that's a sign of this dying down. This will be quelled with iron fist. Capitalists are more brutal than the idea of communism in crushing things like this
It looks like Europe committing cultural suicide. God bless my Google.
Lovin' it. Google gets virtue signalled as it enforces virtue signalling across society. Watcha gonna do, Google? My bet is on Google crushing it's internal rebellion while it continues to virtue signal everywhere else - like any good commie authoritarian. Hypocrisy be damned.
If they crush the rebellion they will come across as authoritarian. If they don't they will come across as weak. Tough place to be.
power > $ >>> virtue So crushing the rebellion is the logical choice and it will get done.