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It’s not like she’s an ombudsman for Google. If she has concerns she should voice those concerns internally. If she doesn’t feel that her concerns are being tak
by cwhiz 6y ago
It’s not like she’s an ombudsman for Google. If she has concerns she should voice those concerns internally. If she doesn’t feel that her concerns are being taken seriously, she should quit. On the way out the door, she should tell her story.
It’s honestly just basic professionalism. Don’t publicly trash your employer.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoI'm curious how you think someone who is a professional ethicist is supposed to do their job without being allowed to comment on ethics. It's not a cog-in-a-machine profession. Having critical opinions is what the job is about. It's literally stupid for a corporation to employ an ethicist and then somehow be outraged and appalled when they have their ethics questioned and challenged.
- cwhiz 6y agoShe’s not a broad professional ethicist at Google. She’s part of an ethical AI team. It’s one thing to write a critical research paper on Google AI. It’s quite another to spend months publicly trashing your employer on social media. You would think someone who is working in ethics would understand the difference. Share your critical opinions internally, or at minimum share them in a professional manner. Act like a professional adult.
- anm89 6y agoWanted to write this exact same reply before I saw yours. She was not a general ethicist at google. Her job was not to comment on the ethical issues of employment. Her ethics role was AI specific and none of this has anything to do with AI
- Cacti 6y agoI'm curious why you think she was fired for having critical opinions as opposed to grossly unprofessional conduct. She could have done her job just fine without throwing her colleagues under a bus, badmouthing her employer in the press, and having a paranoid meltdown because her paper didn't pass peer review. Being an ethicist doesn't give you the right to act like an asshole.
- Quarrelsome 6y agoI think publicly posting about why its bad your colleague was fired/resigned while still working for a company is just a bad idea in general. Quit and make the post sure but believing you can shit talk in public while still working is a bit off, isn't it?
- sangnoir 6y ago> It’s honestly just basic professionalism. Don’t publicly trash your employer. I'm sure the fine folk at Project Zero didn't get this memo.
- masalah 6y agoHow does project zero trash talk their employer, do you have any such instance?