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EVENT STREAM // AUGUST 2021

GOOGLE FIRES AI ETHICS RESEARCHERS

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Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell fired from Google AI Ethics team after raising concerns about large language model risks. Highlights corporate pressure to suppress safety research.

ETHICS CORPORATE RACE
SOURCES [2]
  1. Timnit Gebru statements via New York Times interview and Twitter thread — nytimes.com
  2. Reuters and MIT Technology Review investigations — reuters.com