Read the Email That Led to the Exit of Google A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru

‘Your life gets worse when you start advocating for underrepresented people’

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
3 min readDec 3, 2020

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Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s most prominent researchers on ethics and computer vision, says she was fired this week after sending an email to Google Brain Women and Allies, an internal resource group at the company.

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.