Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher’s abrupt departure last week has “seeded doubts” in the company.
Pichai told Google employees in a Wednesday memo obtained by
Axios that the tech company is beginning a review of the circumstances leading
up to Black computer scientist Timnit Gebru’s exit and how Google could have
“led a more respectful process.”
Gebru, a top scholar in the field of AI ethics, said she was
fired last week. Google has referred to it as a resignation.
Pichai's note doesn't call it either a firing or a
resignation but says "we need to accept responsibility for the fact that a
prominent Black, female leader with immense talent left Google unhappily."
The dispute centered around Google's push to disassociate
itself from a research paper Gebru co-authored examining the societal dangers
of an AI technology used by Google.
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