Google Ethical AI Research Manager is fired for email

Dec 3, 2020 11 Comments

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  • Amazon / Eng
    somepeeps

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    somepeeps
    Change this title. She resigned. Read Jeff Dean’s email.

    Not a Googler, but I’m tired of these diversity and inclusion mandates. She was pissed her org didn’t hire more women. The goal for companies is to hire the best person for the JOB. This is agnostic of race, gender, etc. If hiring isn’t perfectly representative of the rest of society, diversity/inclusion advocates need to pivot from “just hire more X” and focus on inspecting the WHY. If there is a bias in hiring, go through the data and FIND it. Fight for making sure it’s not biased. If you don’t find any evidence then it’s based on X’s preferences and childhood opportunities. If it’s preferences, why the need to put people into something that’s not their preference? If it’s opportunities, that’s not the companies job to solve, it’s government and society.
    Anything else like getting more X hired more than an equal bar will only result in resentment, questioning competence for all X, and underperforming your role expectations.
    Dec 3, 2020 3
    • Amazon / Eng
      somepeeps

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      somepeeps
      Are you even reading her own tweet?
      “I said here are the conditions. If you can meet them great I’ll take my name off this paper, if not then I can work on a last date. Then she sent an email to my direct reports saying she has accepted my resignation.”

      What about that says fired?
      Dec 3, 2020
    • Shopify
      JMcG05

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      JMcG05
      Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
      Dec 3, 2020
  • This is the opposite of the James damore situation, I must say I’m surprised (in a good way)
    Dec 3, 2020 2
  • Workday
    HaPwe39

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    HaPwe39
    Seems to be more about corporate red tape and politics than suppressing minorities
    Dec 3, 2020 0
  • Oracle
    dragonflyy

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    dragonflyy
    Doesn’t look fired to me. She rage quit?
    Dec 3, 2020 0
  • Google
    xBmo01

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    xBmo01
    Self-terminating process due to ego OOM error
    Dec 4, 2020 0