Google to centralise AI ethics team amid anger over researcher’s exit
San Francisco/Seattle — Google will restructure its responsible artificial intelligence (AI) efforts to centralise teams under a single executive, according to people familiar with the situation, as the internet giant tries to stabilise groups working on ethics research and products after months of chaos.
The Alphabet unit is expected to announce the changes as soon as Thursday, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the private information. Google has sought to diffuse employee rancour stemming from the acrimonious departure of a prominent black researcher, Timnit Gebru. The responsible AI teams will report to Marian Croak, a black Google executive who currently serves as a vice-president of engineering focused on site-reliability matters. Croak will report to Jeff Dean, the senior vice-president of Google AI...
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