Google is under fire.

News broke last week that Google allegedly pushed out

one of their high-profile employees,

an AI ethics researcher named Timniet Gaboru.

She's a well-respected pioneer in her field

and one of the few black women leaders in the industry.

Here to unpack this controversy and explain why so many people are so upset in the tech community

is Shring Gafari, who reported the story for us.

Hey Shirein.

Hey Teddy.

So what's the big deal? Why is everybody up in arms

about this Google employee that recently resigned? So the Google employee in question or

former Google employee is a really well respected leader in the field of

artificial intelligence specifically about whether artificial intelligence which is increasingly kind of the future of companies like Google and Facebook, right,

whether those systems are actually biased toward minorities, women, and whether it's really fair what this

AI is sort of spitting out at us.

And tell me, like what happened in the weeks before Gabriel's departure that has made this such a kind of rallying moment for

diversity advocates and people in the field.

So here's what we know about what led to this moment.

First, we know that Gabriel and some of her colleagues plan to present a research paper outside of Google at an academic conference about artificial intelligence in natural language processing.

And that means the kind of AI that's used to understand how people speak, both writing and

audio.

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