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Alphabet Inc’s Google is investigating a member of its AI ethics team and blocked the corporate account linked to that person after discovering that thousands of files were recovered from its server and shared with external accounts, the company said on Wednesday .
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Axios, who first reported on the most recent investigation into a member of the Google AI team, said Margaret Mitchell was using automated scripts to examine her messages and find examples that showed the discriminatory treatment of Timnit Gebru, a former employee of the Google team. AI that got fired.
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Gebru, who is black, was a leading AI ethics researcher at Google and was fired in December. While Gebru claimed she was fired for criticizing diversity efforts within Google’s AI unit, the company objected.
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“Our security systems automatically block an employee’s corporate account when they detect that the account is at risk of compromise due to credential issues or when an automated rule involving the handling of sensitive data has been triggered,” said a Google representative in a communicated.
“We are actively investigating this issue as part of standard procedures for gathering additional details.”
Mitchell did not immediately respond to a request for comment through his LinkedIn account.
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Google’s diversity efforts have been questioned by employees and add to years of anguish, including multiple layoffs and layoffs in the AI department, raising doubts whether the company’s efforts to minimize the potential damage to its services are sufficient.
Reporting by Radhika Anilkumar and Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur