Google has two lost prominent members of its Ethical AI research group, reports . On Wednesday, researcher Alex Hanna and software engineer Dylan Baker left the company to join Timnit Gebru’s . Gebru founded the nonprofit in December following her controversial exit from the tech giant in .
Up until the end of that year, Gebru was one of the co-leads of Google’s Ethical AI research group. After publishing a the company said didn’t meet its bar for publication, Gebru claims Google fired her. The company, however, has maintained she resigned. In February 2021, several employees in protest of Google’s handling of the situation. Later that same month, the company fired , the other co-lead of the Ethical AI research group. Hanna and Baker told Bloomberg the dismissals weighed heavily on them, and that they wanted to work with Gebru again.
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