When Google questioned her research, Timnit Gebru didn't back down

From the San Francisco Business Times.

Timnit Gebru is a champion of AI ethics.

She’s driven groundbreaking research at some of the biggest companies in the world and is uniquely placed to critique the dangers of AI bias and the companies best placed to regulate it.

In 2018, Gebru was hired by Google to co-lead its ethical AI team. In December 2020, Gebru announced she had been fired. In between she had coauthored a paper highlighting several risks associated with large language models. Gebru’s…