Their work sparked widespread awareness of issues common in AI today, particularly when the technology is tasked with identifying anything about human beings.
In the email, which was first published by the newsletter Platformer on Thursday, Gebru wrote that she felt"constantly dehumanized" at Google and expressed dismay over the ongoing lack of diversity at the company. Gebru said the paper had been submitted to the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, which will be held in March, and that there was nothing unusual about how the paper was submitted for internal review at Google. She said she wrote the email Tuesday evening after a long back and forth with Google AI leadership in which she was repeatedly told to retract the paper from consideration for presentation at the conference or remove her name from it.
He said Gebru responded with demands that had to be met if she were to remain at Google."Timnit wrote that if we didn't meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date," Dean wrote. "Today dawns a new horrible life-changing loss in a year of horrible life-changing losses," Mitchell tweeted on Thursday."I can't well articulate the pain of losing @timnitgebru as my co-lead. I've been able to excel because of her — like so many others. I'm mostly in shock."