> The demands in the letter include the removal of a Google vice president, Megan Kacholia, from the team's management chain; for transparency surrounding Gebru's departure; and for Google's head of AI, Jeff Dean, and Kacholia to apologize for how Gebru was treated. It also calls for the company to offer Gebru a new, higher-level position, to commit publicly to the integrity of research conducted at Google, and to guarantee it won't harm any workers who advocated for Gebru.
I sincerely hope Google’s leaders don’t cave in and instead hold firm on their prior decision. Employee activism is highly toxic and distracting, especially when activists organize like a mob to prop up someone as toxic as Timnit Gebru. Anonymous forums like Reddit ML and Blind are full of stories from victims of her aggression/toxicity and yet the alliance of employee activists and tech journalists continue to make her out to be a victim of injustice.