chronic3802

> why are you still working there and not resigning?

Simple: she wants to still be paid by Google.

- 135,000 Google employees

- 2,000 signed a petition to support Timnit [1]

- 2 employees resigned to support Timnit [2]

When it comes to voting with your feet, no one actually gives a shit.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/04/thousands-petition-google-fo...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/tech/google-employees-quit/in...

- 135,000 Google employees

- 2,000 signed a petition to support Timnit [1]

- 2 employees resigned to support Timnit [2]

When it comes to voting with your feet, no one actually gives a shit.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/04/thousands-petition-google-fo...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/tech/google-employees-quit/in...

You can purchase pre-IPO shares in SpaceX (minimum investment $250K) if you have $1M in net worth.

> The computer said he's a suspect and we don't know why, but we still want a warrant.

Mission critical ML systems (G/FB ads, crime forensics, medical decision support, financial algorithms) do not work like this.

The designers know exactly which features are causing responses/predictions in the model, their respective perturbation sensitivities, and have clear bounds regarding adversarial inputs/outliers.

“Not knowing how the model works” is definitely true for deep learning, though.