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One of her tweets says: > I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies. In a later tweet, says she would repost the email publicly but she no longer has access to it. I'm guessing it will leak soon.
What's "Brain Women and Allies"?
Google Brain Women and Allies is a mailing list within the team.
All this says is, she sent a mail to Brain Women and Allies that resulted in her immediate termination. Does anyone else remember when she picked a fight with Yann LeCunn by deliberately misinterpreting his remarks to cast him as a racist? Seems reasonable to assume she picked another fight. Reading the Twitter threat, it reads like she made demands in a way visible to a large number of employees (something about aut…
Without knowing more context, it sounds like she tried to do some hardball negotiating by threatening to leave, and got her bluff called.
Quoting the tweets for posterity, link at the bottom:
> I need to be very careful what I say so let me be clear. They can come after me. No one told me that I was fired. You know legal speak, given that we're seeing who we're dealing with. This is the exact email I received from Megan who reports to Jeff
> Who I can't imagine would do this without consulting and clearing with him of course. So this is what is written in the email:
> Thanks for making your conditions clear. We cannot agree to #1 and #2 as you are requesting. We respect your decision to leave Google as a result, and we are accepting your resignation.
> However, we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the email you sent last night to non-management employees in the brain group reflect behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.
> As a result, we are accepting your resignation immediately, effective today. We will send your final paycheck to your address in Workday. When you return from your vacation, PeopleOps will reach out to you to coordinate the return of Google devices and assets.
[1]: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364732480958467
I also saw the tweets at Yann LeCun. I'm not his biggest fan, but that wasn't right. She's hurting minorities for her own agenda.
Edit: removed info about myself.
By virtue of their research area, her and her team no doubt push against this limit very often. Based on this, I’m not sure it’s possible to really pursue many lines of research inquiry into AI ethics and fairness within a place like Google.
This move makes it clear that Google has no commitment to Ethical AI as a field; they want rhetorical cover for their ongoing bad actions.
Any details on what happened? Trying to get context, I see big names professors from Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, Cornell all commenting/retweeting on how bad this is, so it's a big deal for sure
One of her tweets says: > I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies. In a later tweet, says she would repost the email publicly but she no longer has access to it. I'm guessing it will leak soon.