ExtremeTech Google CEO Promises to Investigate Exit of Top AI Researcher By Joel Hruska on December 10, 2020 at 10:31 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized to other Google employees for how the company handled the firing/dismissal of AI expert Timnit Gebru. The memo did not state if Pichai or any Google employee had reached out to Dr. Gebru, or whether a direct apology to her would be forthcoming. While the CEO may have intended for his missive to calm the situation, its tone and framing could have the opposite effect.