Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by davorak on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:04PM
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What is missing and would make it clearer where things fall is the email from Timnit to Jeff.
Then the language used by Timnit could analyzed and reasoned through to determine if it counts as a formal offer to resign or not.
I not jumping on any bandwagons without at least that or equivalent.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by pb7 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:12PM
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>I not jumping on any bandwagons without at least that or equivalent.
Which is exactly why she has refrained from releasing it throughout this whole drama: plausible deniability.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by davorak on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:32PM
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> Which is exactly why she has refrained from releasing it throughout this whole drama: plausible deniability.
I do not think there is evidence for that. It is normal to remove employee access to email if they are leaving so it is unlikely Timnit would have access to the email to share.
Timnit says says she has been cut off from her corp account as well: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364734418726912
"Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google."
[0] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364732480958467?s... [1] https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...