Gebru also publicly accused Jeff Dean of being complicit in "silenc[ing]" female researchers over a year before she resigned/was fired [1], and the "email compl

Gebru also publicly accused Jeff Dean of being complicit in "silenc[ing]" female researchers over a year before she resigned/was fired [1], and the "email complaining about the process to a mailing list about diversity and inclusion work" also included a brief reference to past legal tussles between herself and Google: > I’m always amazed at how people can continue to do thing after thing like this and then turn around and ask me for some sort of extra DEI work or input. This happened to me last year. I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google (which is when they backed off--before that Google lawyers were prepared to throw us under the bus and our leaders were following as instructed) and the next day I get some random “impact award.” Pure gaslighting. From the outside, it looks like whatever relationship Gebru and Google leadership had was extremely strained well before this paper. It looks like Google leadership had gotten tired of Gebru (for good or bad reasons) and took this as a good time to cut ties. [1] https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1193238414742548480?lang=en https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1193238414742548480?l... [2] https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...