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\n In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a visit to El Centro College in Dallas. Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher’s abrupt departure last week has “seeded doubts” in the company. Pichai told Google employees in a memo Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 obtained by Axios that the tech company is beginning a review of the circumstances leading up to Black computer scientist Timnit Gebru’s exit and how Google could have “led a more respectful process.” (AP Photo\/LM Otero, File)
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher’s abrupt departure last week has “seeded doubts” in the company.<\/p>\n

Pichai told Google employees in a Wednesday memo obtained by Axios<\/a> that the tech company is beginning a review of the circumstances leading up to Black computer scientist Timnit Gebru’s exit and how Google could have “led a more respectful process.”<\/p>\n

Gebru, a top scholar in the field of AI ethics, said she was fired last week. Google has referred to it as a resignation.<\/p>\n

Pichai’s note doesn’t call it either a firing or a resignation but says “we need to accept responsibility for the fact that a prominent Black, female leader with immense talent left Google unhapp<\/a>ily.”<\/p>\n

The dispute centered around Google’s push to disassociate itself from a research paper Gebru co-authored examining the societal dangers of an AI technology<\/a> used by Google.<\/p>\n

Gebru criticized Pichai’s memo Wednesday on Twitter<\/a>, saying she saw<\/a> “no plans for accountability” in it and because it offered no apology for what happened to her.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people, many of them Google employees, have signed an open letter showing support for Gebru and accusing Google of “unprecedented research censorship,” racism and defensiveness.\n <\/p>\n\n

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