“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,” he said in a statement. For example, yesterday our systems detected that an account exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with several external accounts. “
Like Bloomberg notes, Mitchell has express support by Gebru on Twitter and criticized Google and other tech giants for the way they deal with issues of gender, race and systemic prejudice. On Tuesday, Mitchell criticized the upcoming meeting of Google CEO Sundar Pichai with historically black college and university leaders.
Let’s say you have a problem with the consistent alienation of black women and have caused serious damage to their lives.
Could you:
A) try to undo this damage
B) try to find more black people who like you (the tokenism approach).
Good luck ….. https: //t.co/rrhL8AQDIF– MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) January 19, 2021
Gebru, who is black and worked with Mitchell on the Ethical AI team, says Google fired her. She had indicated that she could quit if the company did not meet her demands. Google closed access to Gebru’s email and told its reports that she resigned.
Thousands of Googlers, academics and others signed an open letter in support of Gebru. Pichai apologized for the way the company dealt with the problems related to his departure and promised to investigate. Google employees formed a union soon after.