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From this article: > In an email to colleagues, Whittaker said her Google manager told her to "abandon [her] work on AI ethics" and blocked a request to transf
by jakelazaroff 7y ago
From this article:
> In an email to colleagues, Whittaker said her Google manager told her to "abandon [her] work on AI ethics" and blocked a request to transfer internally.
From the aforelinked Guardian article:
> In the letters, Stapleton said that two months after the walkout, she was demoted and “told to go on medical leave” despite not being sick. The demotion was reversed after she hired a lawyer, she said.
- cobookman 7y agoThe manager feedback was posted in an internal mailing list. It said no such thing. manager asked her to focus on her day to day job. Her ai ethics work was not aligned to the job she was hired for.
- bancars 7y agoDo you have proof of this?
- cobookman 7y agoIf you are a googler. View the ethics-discuss group. And search for Meredith's post where she discloses her managers performance review.
- cobookman 7y agoSry. Source was from a blind thread. Not an internal thread. Mixed the two up https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL
- joshuamorton 7y agoThis is not correct. Her day to day work is/was in the AI bias and ethics space, even within google.
- xyzzyz 7y agoWhy do you think so? Do you have a source of any of her supervisors saying that?
- jakelazaroff 7y agoNot sure why the burden of proof would be higher for this claim than the preceding one.
- xyzzyz 7y agoBefore I left Google, I looked her up, and none of her ladder, none of her supervisors, none of the other reportees of her immediate supervisor etc. had anything to do with AI ethics. She was originally hired as a Program Manager on Google Docs. In this light, I view your statement as requiring some backing.
- fao_ 7y agoSo provide some evidence. I could easily say I worked for XYZ and say the same thing you have. I worked for the White House as Press Secretary and got an email from Trump drunkenly claiming he ran someone over. I worked as senior advisor to the Shadow Health Secretary in 2020 and helped leak internal communiques covering numerous malpractice suites. Blah blah blah. It's all words until you show evidence. It's hypocritical to demand evidence from someone else without showing your own. If you don't have any to show, then that's your problem, not theirs.
- joshuamorton 7y agoMy source is the same document that the other poster mentioned. When did you leave? Because you know, people switch jobs, and her role at Google at the time of leaving was leading the Open Research Institute, which you might imagine has nothing to do with drive. But no I'm not going to share confidential information just because you don't believe me.
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- cobookman 7y agoSry. Source was from a blind thread. Not an internal thread. Mixed the two up https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL