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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by contemporary343 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:51PM (#25293761)
It's an original research paper (not review) and it was published in 2018. So yes, 1000 citations at the very least conveys that it was noticed and had an impact.

Also, anyone who works in the field of AI fairness and ethics research knows about it. So yeah, it's an important study.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by bitcharmer on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:28PM (#25295287)
Andrew Wakefield's paper which started the anti vax movement got much more citations than that.

What does that tell you?

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by Bukhmanizer on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:12PM (#25295015)
Attention != quality. Especially not the type of quality that keeps one from getting fired after publicly badmouthing ones boss.

As far as I can see, the only way she would keep her job, is if her research was so fundamental to the company that they literally could not function without her. Citations don’t tell you that. My boss is a star researcher in his field with multiple 1000+ citation papers. He still has to act respectfully of his boss and peers.

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