Timnit Gebru’s colleagues challenge claims she resigned as more than 1,800 sign petition of solidarity

Outcry is growing within Google over the treatment of the AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru, with Gebru’s colleagues challenging the company’s account of her exit in an open letter.

In a letter posted on Monday on Medium, Gebru’s colleagues disputed an executive’s claim that she had resigned and called internal research policies into question.

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