Federal Labor Agency Says Google Wrongly Fired 2 Employees
The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.
The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.
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, 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.”
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
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.
The ride-sharing giant was the subject of a withering report, but its values and its hard-driven C.E.O. remain in place.
Interview with Susan Fowler, the author of a blog post that exposed problematic behaviour during her time at Uber.
Susan Fowler's blog post about her experience at Uber, outlining the sexism she experienced while on the team.
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.
Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.