Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, has voiced exasperation over the company's response to efforts to increase minority hiring.

Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her. The technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team claims managers were upset about an email she’d sent to colleagues. The email, which was sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv, voiced frustration that managers were trying to get Gebru to retract a research paper.

The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.

Cyber security researchers uncovered an online attack that tricks scientists into creating toxic chemicals or deadly viruses in their own labs by replacing ordered sequences with malicious ones.

The attack disrupted the district’s websites and remote learning programs, as well as its grading and email systems, officials said.

State-of-the-art image-classifying AI models trained on ImageNet, a popular (but problematic) dataset containing photos scraped from the internet, automatically learn humanlike biases about race, gender, weight, and more according to new research from scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and George Washington University.

A fight over replacing bail with "risk assessment tools" has split reform advocates. Some fear the change will worsen anti-Black discrimination.

A study finds that two-thirds of Europeans surveyed would consider human augmentation. The article breaks down the study to see how location, age, gender impacted responses, and what concerns people had.

The female patient, suffering from a life-threatening illness, had to be turned away and died after the ambulance carrying her was diverted. If the investigation leads to a prosecution, it would be the first confirmed case in which a person has died as the direct consequence of a cyberattack.

The Portland, Ore., City Council unanimously adopted two landmark ordinances banning city and private use of facial recognition technology. The first bars all city bureaus from acquiring or using the controversial technology with minimal exceptions for personal verification. The second blocks private entities from using the software that scans faces to identify them in all public accommodations.