*Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.* /Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, had voiced exasperation over the company’s response to efforts to increase minority hiring./ By Cade Metz and Daisuke Wakabayashi     Dec. 3, 2020 A well-respected Google researcher said she was fired by the company after criticizing its approach to minority hiring and the biases built into today’s artificial intelligence systems. Timnit Gebru, who was a co-leader of Google’s Ethical A.I. team, said in a tweet on Wednesday evening that she was fired because of an email she had sent a day earlier to a group that included company employees. In the email, reviewed by The New York Times, she expressed exasperation over Google’s response to efforts by her and other employees to increase minority hiring and draw attention to bias in artificial intelligence. [...] continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researcher-timnit-gebru...