This seems to be part of a wider restructuring of AI teams at Google.<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-18/google-to-reorganize-ai-teams-in-wake-of-researcher-s-departure" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-18/google-to...</a>
I'm still not clear what the huge injustice at the core of this is meant to be. There is a lot of innuendo, then it just links to another fact free article or a tweet saying someone was fired.<p>Full disclosure: I am pretty STEM-centric so the whole idea of being an ethics researcher seems questionable to me...<p>Edit:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru</a><p>The intro and Leaving Google sections don't show any actual basis controversy. It seems to come down to her work being questioned, her threatening to resign and Google "accepting".