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> ...and the researchers hoped to bring the issue to CEO Sundar Pichai and Alphabet's board of directors. Um, what? The board of directors has no interest in t
by dehrmann 5y ago
> ...and the researchers hoped to bring the issue to CEO Sundar Pichai and Alphabet's board of directors.
Um, what? The board of directors has no interest in this.
- throwawaygh 5y agoThis is probably the most under-rated comment in the thread. Speaking as a scientist in industry, polluting executive attention with internal spats over publication clearance is cause enough for termination.
- whymauri 5y agoI wonder how much of this comes down to the researcher's expectations going from SVP at a 1k person trading firm to Senior Manager at a Google with 100k+ employees. Maybe they expected to punch in a much higher political weight class than they actually could and got burned.
- mediumiqsad 5y ago