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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by ucha on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:18PM (#25294160)
Timnit Gebru has a BSc, MSc and PhD in electrical engineering all from Stanford. She did actual electrical engineering work at Apple previously. Maybe it's hard to believe but she's not just another SJW.

The idea that companies only need to do maximize shareholder value isn't that old and was only popularized in the 80s. If you restrict creating value to that, then maybe she didn't create any at Google. But maybe Google wants to create a software that works equally well for everyone and raising the issue of IA biases would have helped achieve that goal.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by inglor_cz on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:18PM (#25295122)
"she's not just another SJW."

How is this either/or? Highly educated people can still join fringe political clubs.

There is nothing about technical education that immunizes you against radical politics. At the risk of Godwinizing the reply: the engineers who built the first liquid fuelled rockets in Peenemunde were N..z..s, including the guy who was later brought into the US and built all kind of powerful and ingenious rockets there (Wernher von Braun).

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