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Google 2020 Firing: Researcher Who Predicted LLM Problems

June 7, 2026

This from Wired Magazine

 Google Fired an AI Ethics Researcher

(She was fired for writing about ethics in Large Language Models)

In Dec. 2020, Google artificial intelligence [ed. note: LLM] researcher Timnit Gebru received disturbing news from a senior manager. She says the manager asked her to either retract or remove her name from a research paper (On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?) she had coauthored, because an internal review had found the contents objectionable.

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