{"id":3203,"date":"2021-02-19T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1339889"},"modified":"2021-02-19T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:26:23","slug":"breaking-google-reportedly-fired-margaret-mitchell-its-ethical-ai-team-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Google reportedly fired Margaret Mitchell, its Ethical AI Team founder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/neural?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F02%2Fmmitchelltweet.jpg&amp;signature=f1253dc4f01f04d728d5749122e23452\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Google has evidently fired the founder and co-lead of its Ethical AI team, Margaret Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after weeks of being <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/01\/20\/after-firing-timnit-gebru-google-is-now-investigating-another-researcher-in-its-ethical-ai-division\/\">locked out of her work accounts<\/a> over an investigation related to Mitchell\u2019s objections concerning the controversial firing of her fellow co-lead Timnit Gebru.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.2413793103448\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmitchell_ai\/status\/1362885356127801345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/01\/20\/after-firing-timnit-gebru-google-is-now-investigating-another-researcher-in-its-ethical-ai-division\/\">a Google spokesperson<\/a>, the investigation into Mitchell concerned alleged sharing of internal company files:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><span>Our security systems automatically lock an employee\u2019s corporate account when they detect that the account is at risk of compromise due to credential problems or when an automated rule involving the handling of sensitive data has been triggered. In this instance, yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts. We explained this to the employee earlier today.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The firing of Timnit Gebru sent shockwaves throughout the AI community. It\u2019s been widely viewed as a move to remove voices of dissent when those voices, world renowned ethicists hired specifically to investigate and oversee the ethical development and deployment of Google\u2019s AI systems, don\u2019t say what the company wants to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Details are still coming in, but it appears as though Mitchell\u2019s been let go as the result of Google\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published February 19, 2021 \u2014 22:26 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/02\/19\/breaking-google-reportedly-fired-margaret-mitchell-its-ethical-ai-team-founder\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has evidently fired the founder and co-lead of its Ethical AI team, Margaret Mitchell. This comes after weeks of being locked out of her work accounts over an investigation related to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}