In response, senior managers at Google demanded that Gebru either withdraw the paper, or take her name and those of her colleagues off it. We need regulation and we need something better than just a profit motive.”Gebru speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2018. Gebru says she was aware of “a lot of tolerance of harassment and all sorts of toxic behaviour”. Then, Google asked Gebru either to withdraw the paper, or remove her and her colleagues’ names from it. Subsequent accounts said that Google had cited “behaviour that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager”.

Source: Ethiopian News May 22, 2023 14:17 UTC