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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by kazamaloo on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:28AM (#25300534)
it is sort of a placeholder approval. The actual reviews may be done by a legal team, HR/PR, other researchers in the field etc.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by mehrdada on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:44PM (#25306046)
Do you have actual information or just randomly speculating about the nature of that "approval" under a newly created anonymous HackerNews account?
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by FeepingCreature on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:13AM (#25303090)
A "placeholder approval" is also known as an "approval". If they didn't want to approve it, they shouldn't have done it.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by kazamaloo on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:41PM (#25309821)
what you refer to as "they" are two different entities.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by FeepingCreature on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:28AM (#25323650)
If the company doesn't even have a clear indication who is authorized to approve things, that seems much more a Google problem.
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