Google has evidently fired the founder and co-lead of its Moral AI workforce, Margaret Mitchell.
This comes after weeks of being locked out of her work accounts over an investigation associated to Mitchell’s objections in regards to the controversial firing of her fellow co-lead Timnit Gebru.
I am fired.
— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) February 19, 2021
In accordance with a Google spokesperson, the investigation into Mitchell involved alleged sharing of inner firm information:
Our safety techniques mechanically lock an worker’s company account after they detect that the account is susceptible to compromise resulting from credential issues or when an automatic rule