Finally it does not say "I'm sorry for what we did to her and it was wrong." What it DOES say is "it seeded doubts and led some in our community to question their place at Google." So I see this as "I'm sorry for how it played out but I'm not sorry for what we did to her yet." 4\

STS scholars know this game. Cast the failure into a "complex" engineering system, and you've lost the contexts of movements of power -- in this case, the power is corporate, racialized, and gendered.

Full stop— We can’t prevent algorithmic bias in innovative tech if POC don’t have a seat at the table. Ron Wyden and I urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai to reaffirm his commitment to D&I and academic freedom. Now more than ever, @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)’s departure makes this work essential.

I'm finna tell yall why Google fired me- their MOST successful diversity recruiter in the history of their company- with the receipts to support that statement.

It’s been 730 hrs (1month), since @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)’s firing + what has transpired: tweets by her interviews by her+her collabs solidarity letters signed But no ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of their bad decision making, no ACCEPTANCE of wrongdoings + no ATONEMENT for their mistreatment of her

@emilymbender.bsky.social @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) Ironically, the idea that our axioms should be explicit is precisely what modern feminist CS argues for, but the men who somehow believe they have no axioms shut this down, because they judge the world only from their own axioms as if that is the one true way.

This is not even counting the harassers who were enabled by all the subsequent gaslighting, who we've had the pleasure of interacting with, setting up anonymous accounts, trolling on various platforms etc.

As for the claim that our paper is one-sided, this is exhausting. All of ML gets to write papers that talk up the benefits of the tech without mentioning any risks (at least until 2020 w/broader impact statements), but when a paper focuses on the risks, it's "one-sided"? >>

As if my termination couldn’t get any worse… Google decided after firing me that the best way to send a message to the world that they value diversity was to BACK FILL MY ROLE WITH A WHITE WOMAN. The optics of it all are shameful honey.

Took me a while to prioritize a recorded interview bc of how poorly I was criticized at Google and by trolls on the way I speak smh lol.. but anyway did a brief chat today with Jarrett Carter Sr. and HBCU Digest... Go have a listen.. hbcudigest.com/p/watch-april-…

YALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL IM IN HERE CRYINNNNGGGGGGG YALLL NEED TO WATCH THIS OH MY GOD skfiejnd youtu.be/w0PwcoD63oE

Critically acclaimed #Sundance documentary Coded Bias Documentary by @shalinikantayya is available to stream on Netflix April 5th! Meet the brilliant and badass women fighting for ethics in the technologies that will shape our future. #codedbias

Fwiw @ journalists: I worked hard for years to motivate and create the Ethical AI team and the ML Fairness focus at Google. Google did not create these orgs and invite @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) to lead; I did. Please do not erase me anymore. Thanks. ♥️

For the record, it is in fact a fallacy. You cannot square the *record* profits that companies have been posting with this idea that people aren't working. It's incredibly disingenuous and dishonest. So what are people actually talking about?

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