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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by ethical-ai on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:44AM (#25300622)
What I really cannot understand is how someone who works on ethics can think that revealing names of anonymous reviewer is OK?

Why would they need those names anyway? I'm also unable to think of any reason they might need the identities of the reviewers.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by woko on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:20AM (#25303185)
My guess would be that they took the issue as a personal offence, and they believe that someone higher in the power structure has some personal beef against them as a person, rather than against parts of their work. They want to confront that person.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by visarga on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:54AM (#25315984)
Maybe they want a good old fashion public Twitter judgement for the reviewers. She has a crowd.
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