Two Google engineers resign over firing of ethical AI researcher

Two Google engineers, including one of Indian-origin, have left Google over abrupt firing of Timnit Gebru who was the technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team.
While engineering director David Baker said Gebru’s dismissal “extinguished” his will to work at the company, software engineer Vinesh Kannan announced that he was quitting because Gebru and April Christina Curley, a diversity recruiter, were “wronged,” The Verge reported on Wednesday.
“Yesterday was my last day at Google. I left because Google’s mistreatment of @timnitGebru and @RealAbril crossed a personal red line I wrote down when I started the job,” Kannan wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.
The personal red line he referred to “retaliation against a teammate who stands up for something I believe in.”