Google Ethical AI Research Manager is fired for email
Dec 3, 2020
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Can any Googlers shed some light on this spicy situation? Does Google hate strong black women?
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical
The withering email that got an ethical AI researcher fired at Google
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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.
“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?
She got fired for demanding hiring quotas