{"id":609,"date":"2021-02-20T01:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/google-fires-margaret-mitchell-another-top-researcher-on-its-ai-ethics-team\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T01:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:45:27","slug":"google-fires-margaret-mitchell-another-top-researcher-on-its-ai-ethics-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/google-fires-margaret-mitchell-another-top-researcher-on-its-ai-ethics-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dismissal comes after prominent Black researcher Timnit Gebru was fired in December; both had called for more diversity among research staff<\/p>\n<p>Google has fired one of its top artificial intelligence researchers, Margaret Mitchell, escalating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/dec\/04\/timnit-gebru-google-ai-fired-diversity-ethics\">internal turmoil<\/a> at the company following the departure of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/04\/google-timnit-gebru-ai-engineers-quit\">Timnit Gebru<\/a>, another leading figure on Google\u2019s AI ethics team. <\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmitchell_ai\/status\/1362885356127801345\">announced her firing<\/a> on Twitter, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Reuters, Google said the firing followed a weeks-long investigation that found she moved electronic files outside the company. Google said Mitchell violated the company\u2019s code of conduct and security policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/19\/google-fires-margaret-mitchell-ai-ethics-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1386067ed67adcc144c4e928818347472d171699\/0_165_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6aeaf532ebc2462dae376439a6f12307\" title=\"Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team\" \/>The dismissal comes after prominent Black researcher Timnit Gebru was fired in December; both had called for more diversity among research staff<br \/>\nGoogle has fired one of its top artificial intelligence researchers, Margaret Mitchell, escalating internal turmoil at the company following the departure of Timnit Gebru, another leading figure on Google\u2019s AI ethics team. Mitchell, who announced her firing on Twitter, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<br \/>\nIn a statement to Reuters, Google said the firing followed a weeks-long investigation that found she moved electronic files outside the company. Google said Mitchell violated the company\u2019s code of conduct and security policies. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dismissal comes after prominent Black researcher Timnit Gebru was fired in December; both had called for more diversity among research staff Google has fired one of its top artificial intelligence researchers, Margaret Mitchell, escalating internal turmoil at the company following the departure of Timnit Gebru, another leading figure on Google\u2019s AI ethics team. Mitchell, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/google-fires-margaret-mitchell-another-top-researcher-on-its-ai-ethics-team\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}