Well they were hired to study the bias and energy waste of large language models and that’s exactly what they found: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04

Well they were hired to study the bias and energy waste of large language models and that’s exactly what they found: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a... The article notes how other Googlers have faced factual review in paper releases and what Jeff Dean did here was clearly something else. Google leadership moved against the Ethics team at a time of high uncertainty: COVID rates were spiking, the stock market had become extremely distorted, there had been a summer of massive protests, Bezos was leaving Amazon.. this was Google leadership being greedy. Since then “ethics of LLMs at Google” has pivoted to overt lobbying and attempts at controlling regulation: https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-google-others-pledge-watermark-ai-content-safety-white-house-2023-07-21/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-google-others-pled...