Science and politics are often mixed together and not to the benefit of former. Ideology often trumps science!
I do not know the exact details or circumstances about the employment or departure of Timnit Gebru by/from Google, but I have a hunch that this cause celebre researcher has been a zealous race/gender/diversity ideologue and militant! Her research paper seem to indicate that. In addition, she self proclaims/promotes permanent victimhood/victim mentality of herself: "people like me who are constantly dehumanized".
Google AI/machine learning research is often top quality and cutting edge. Many of its research papers are excellent or seminal. Just take this famous paper as an example: Attention Is All You Need (published in 2017, citation count 13,592 as of 12/8/2020)
To extort Google in this manner is a shameful disservice to science!
To extort Google in this manner is a shameful disservice to science!
Some well known researchers already have come out to engage in this refusal, e.g. Anima Anandkapur (California Institute of Technology and Nvidia)
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