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   Google has fired one of its top artificial intelligence   
   researchers, Margaret Mitchell, escalating internal turmoil at   
   the company following the departure of Timnit Gebru, another   
   leading figure on Google’s AI ethics team.   
      
   Mitchell, who announced her firing on Twitter, did not   
   immediately respond to requests for comment.   
      
   In a statement to Reuters, Google said the firing followed a   
   weeks-long investigation that found she moved electronic files   
   outside the company. Google said Mitchell violated the company’s   
   code of conduct and security policies.   
      
   Google’s ethics in artificial intelligence research unit has   
   been under scrutiny since December’s dismissal of Gebru, a   
   prominent Black researcher in Silicon Valley. Gebru’s exit   
   prompted thousands of Google workers to protest. Mitchell and   
   Gebru co-led the ethics in artificial intelligence team for   
   about two years.   
      
   Gebru and Mitchell, who is white, had called for more diversity   
   among Google’s research staff and expressed concern that the   
   company was starting to censor research critical of its products.   
      
   Gebru said Google fired her after she questioned an order not to   
   publish a paper claiming AI that mimics language could hurt   
   marginalized populations.   
      
   Google’s AI research director, Zoubin Ghahramani, and a company   
   legal representative informed Mitchell’s team of her firing on   
   Friday in a meeting called at short notice, a person familiar   
   with the matter told Reuters. The person said little explanation   
   was given for the dismissal. Alex Hanna, an employee at Google,   
   said on Twitter the company was running a “smear campaign”   
   against Mitchell and Gebru, with whom she worked closely.   
      
   Google did not immediately comment on those claims. In a   
   statement to the Guardian, the company said: “After conducting a   
   review of this manager’s conduct, we confirmed that there were   
   multiple violations of our code of conduct, as well as of our   
   security policies, which included the exfiltration of   
   confidential business-sensitive documents and private data of   
   other employees.”   
      
   Google has recruited top scientists with promises of research   
   freedom, but the limits are tested as researchers increasingly   
   write about the negative effects of technology and offer   
   unflattering perspectives on their employer’s products.   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/19/google-fires-   
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