AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google

Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by Footkerchief on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:05AM (#25303849)

I agree -- the passive voice here (intentionally?) makes it impossible to tell whether the external submission was done in good faith:

> Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.

If (to the best of her knowledge) she got approval through the correct process, and then an unidentified party opaquely removed the approval after the fact, I think her questions are justified.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by bmitc on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:02PM (#25307910)

I found the quoted sentence to be very unclear, which is surprising because it is the crux of the matter. From it, I can't tell the timeline between the order of when things happened and who did what. Who approved and submitted what and when?

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