Posted on

Google’s treatment of AI ethics researchers continues to stir up controversy



Share

You’ve landed on the web version of the weekly Human Capital newsletter. Sign up here to get this in your inbox every Friday at 1 p.m.
Welcome back to Human Capital. A lot happened this week pertaining to on-demand companies like Uber, Postmates, DoorDash and Instacart, and their respective gig workforces. Meanwhile, New York’s attorney general hit Amazon with a lawsuit over its warehouse labor practices and Twitter made some new commitments to increase diversity at the leadership level by 2025.
But that’s not all. Google fired another AI top ethicist, Margaret Mitchell. The company also internally published …

Read More