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Standing with Dr. Timnit Gebru — #Isupporttimnit #Believeblackwomen Google Walkout For Real Change 810 Followers · About Follow Sign in Get started Standing with Dr. Timnit Gebru — #ISupportTimnit #BelieveBlackWomen Google Walkout For Real Change 2 days ago · 83 min read We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with Dr. Timnit Gebru, who was terminated from her position as Sta Research Scientist and Co-Lead of Ethical Articial Intelligence (AI) team at Google, following unprecedented research censorship. We call on Google Research to strengthen its commitment to research integrity and to unequivocally commit to supporting research that honors the commitments made in Google’s AI Principles. Until December 2, 2020, Dr. Gebru was one of very few Black women Research Scientists at the company, which boasts a dismal 1.6% Black women employees overall. Her research accomplishments are extensive, and have profoundly impacted academic scholarship and public policy. Dr. Gebru is a pathbreaking scientist doing some of the most important work to ensure just and accountable AI and to create a welcoming and diverse AI research Deld. Instead of being embraced by Google as an exceptionally talented and prolic contributor, Dr. Gebru has faced defensiveness, racism, gaslighting, research censorship, and now a retaliatory Dring. In an email to Dr. Gebru’s team on the evening of December 2, 2020, Google executives claimed that she had chosen to resign. This is false. In their direct correspondence with Dr. Gebru, these executives informed her that her termination was immediate, and pointed to an email she sent to a Google Brain diversity and inclusion mailing list as pretext. The contents of this email are important. In it, Dr. Gebru pushed back against Google’s censorship of her (and her colleagues’) research, which focused on examining the environmental and ethical implications of large- scale AI language models (LLMs), which are used in many Google products. Dr. Gebru and her colleagues worked for months on a paper that was under review at an academic conference. In late November, Dve weeks after the piece had been internally reviewed and approved for publication through standard processes, Google leadership made the decision to censor it, without warning or cause. Dr. Gebru asked them to explain this decision and to take accountability for it, and for their lackluster stand on discriminatory and harassing workplace conditions. The termination is an act of retaliation against Dr. Gebru, and it heralds danger for people working for ethical and just AI — especially Black people and People of Color — across Google. Research integrity can no longer be taken for granted in Google’s corporate research environment, and Dr. Gebru’s Dring has overthrown a working understanding of what kind of research Google will permit. This is also a moment of reckoning beyond Google. As we know, Dr. Gebru is one of the few people exerting pressure from the inside against the unethical and undemocratic incursion of powerful and biased technologies into our daily lives. This is a public service, and its importance cannot be overstated. Google’s retaliation against Dr. Gebru, and its move to silence this work, concerns us all. We have the following demands of Google Research leadership: 1. We demand that Je Dean (Google Senior Fellow and Senior Vice- President of Research), Megan Kacholia (Vice-President of Engineering for the Google Brain organization), and those who were involved with the decision to censor Dr. Gebru’s paper meet with the Ethical AI team to explain the process by which the paper was unilaterally rejected by leadership. 2. We demand transparency to the broader public, including Google users and our colleagues in the academic community, about Google leadership’s decision to order Dr. Gebru and her colleagues to withdraw their research on large-scale language models. This has become a matter of public concern, and there needs to be public accountability to ensure any trust in Google Research going forward. 3. We demand that Google Research make an unequivocal commitment to research integrity and academic freedom, drastically strengthening the commitments made in Google’s Research Philosophy, and commit to supporting research that furthers the goals of Google’s AI Principles by providing clear guidelines on how research will be reviewed and how research integrity will be respected. To add your name to the list of academic, civil society, and industry supporters (Googlers, see go/stand-with-timnit): 1. Email [email protected] from your institutional email address (preferred) with the subject line “support” 2. Include your name and abliation, as you’d like it to appear on the list of signatories. Signed, 1534 Googlers and 2196 academic, industry, and civil society supporters Googlers include: Aaron Homer, SWE Aaron Sy, Software Engineer Aaron Zakem, Software Engineer Abi LaBounty, Site Reliability Engineer Adam Klein, Sta< Software Engineer Adam Paszke, Research Scientist Adam Pearce Adesola Sanusi, Product Manager Aditi, Software Engineer Adji Bousso Dieng, Research Scientist Adriana R , Global Mobility Adrien Kunysz, Systems Engineer Aekta Shah, UXR JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) Alan McAvinney, Software Engineer Alan Morales, Site Reliability Engineer Alberta Devor, Software Engineer Alec Glassford Alex Hanna, Senior Research Scientist Alex Liu, Software Engineer Alex Saiontz, Product Manager Alex Zani, Software Engineer Alexander D’Amour, Senior Research Scientist Alexander Gorban, Senior Research Scientist Alexandra Camargo, Software Engineer Alexios Mantzarlis Alice, Software Engineer Alice Crawford, Site Reliability Engineer Alice Lemieux, Software Engineer Alicia Chang, Technical Writer Alison C. 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