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• @mmitchell_ai MMitchell on x

  @TexanExiled @josheidelson @NicoAGrant @dinabass @timnitGebru Resignations coming now bc people started interviewing soon after we were fired. There is keen interest in responsible/ethical AI outside of Google, so people we worked with have a lot of options. The job offers are ju…

• @zoeschiffer Zo Schiffer on x

  Alphabet Shareholder Trillium Asset Management is pushing Google for better whistleblower protections in light of Timnit Gebru's firing in December and alleged retaliation against Google organizers: https://twitter.com/...

• @rajiinio Deb Raji on x

  @nsthorat @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai Happy to hear this but I think Google definitely underestimated their impact on the research community, for sure - otherwise the dismissals would have been handled with much more caution & care. I can't imagine them treating a researcher they …

• @computerfemme Kathryn Spiers on x

  I don't know if anyone else if counting but @Tri_Becca90 @SophieJusticeW @laurenceb @nullvoidstar were fired 501 days ago. I was fired 483 days ago.@timnitGebru was fired 128 days ago. Justice moves slowly but google must be held accountable

• @timnitgebru Timnit Gebru on x

  “ Open MIC, a nonprofit that works with shareholders to advocate for greater corporate accountability and is helping to organize the proposal, says Mitchell's firing may have been retaliatory.” No question @mmitchell_ai firing was retaliatory. https://twitter.com/...

• @wsj @wsj on x

  A Boston-based asset management firm is pushing Google to evaluate its whistleblowing program, citing recent red flags https://www.wsj.com/...

• @laurenceb Laurence Berland on x

  Wow, until I read the actual resolution, I didn't realize that my firing (along with @Tri_Becca90 @SophieJusticeW @nullvoidstar) is mentioned specifically. Given how far back they cite history, seem to understand how all of this from @GoogleWalkout to @timnitGebru connect. 1/2 ht…

• @epro Emil Protalinski on x

  Google failed to protect whistleblowers so badly (see firing of @timnitGebru) that a shareholder proposed the company may want to change that. The shareholder made the proposal in December, for the *second year in a row*. It's so odd that the capitalism approach isn't working. ht…

• @laurenceb Laurence Berland on x

  You said it, Hannah Lucal, that's what they claimed about a lot of us. It's their favorite excuse. It's intended to keep workers afraid, second guessing their safety every time they speak up about the issues that matter most. Hopefully more good news in our fight soon! 2/2 https:…

• @matthewsekol Matthew Sekol on x

  Lesson: How you treat your internal stakeholders might surface via your external ones. https://twitter.com/...

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  I also approached a lot of researchers who'd taken research funding from Google to see whether the treatment of Gebru/Mitchell changed how they felt. They acknowledged the unfairness of what happened, but also said that working with industry always came with a price: https://twit…

• @emilymbender Emily M. Bender on x

  Deb's pt here is important: The most important contributions are coming from minoritized voices. The same power systems that tech tends to uphold are the ones teaching us not to listen to those voices. When someone persists, despite everything, the world should listen. >> https:/…

• @ana_valdi Ana Vldv on x

  On Monday students asked me why I was not using @GoogleColab for our seminars. I said that I stand with @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai. I couldn't deal with the contradiction of teaching “Ethics in NLP” while using Google's tools or collaborating with this company... https://twitte…

• @rajiinio Deb Raji on x

  I said this because I believe it: “It was really easy for them to fire her because they didn't value the work she was doing”. Unfortunately for Google, much of the research community disagrees. Proud to continue standing by @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai. https://www.theverge.com/.…

• @d_schoolz Charles Smokely on x

  Im not special and not in the AI community but I stopped interviewing with Google last month for mobile software engineering in part because of how this has played out. https://twitter.com/...