Federal Labor Agency Says Google Wrongly Fired 2 Employees
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.
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Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
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.
Google’s Co-Head of Ethical AI Says She Was Fired for Email
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Timnit Gebru, a co-leader of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, said she was fired for sending an email that management deemed “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.”
There Is a Racial Divide in Speech-Recognition Systems, Researchers Say
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.
Why Companies Like Uber Get Away With Bad Behavior
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The ride-sharing giant was the subject of a withering report, but its values and its hard-driven C.E.O. remain in place.
She’s 26, and Brought Down Uber’s C.E.O. What’s Next?
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Interview with Susan Fowler, the author of a blog post that exposed problematic behaviour during her time at Uber.
Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Blog Post || Medium (5-10 min)
Susan Fowler's blog post about her experience at Uber, outlining the sexism she experienced while on the team.
An Algorithm that Grants Freedom, or Takes it Away
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.
We Teach A.I. Systems Everything, Including Our Biases
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.