Google has fired a leader of its artificial
intelligence ethics team in the fallout from the
recent departure of another former employee
involved in the same field.
The internet company confirmed the firing
after Margaret Mitchell announced her ouster
on Twitter.
The firing comes a month after Mitchell also
vented on Twitter about the handling of her
former colleague, Timnit Gebru, who parted
ways with Google late last year. Gebru, a Black
woman, said she was fired in a dispute over
a research paper, while Google said it had
accepted her resignation.