Skip to main content Currently Reading Google hired Timnit Gebru to be an outspoken critic of unethical AI. Then she was fired for it. Nitasha Tiku, The Washington Post Dec. 23, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Timnit Gebru said she was fired by Google after criticizing its approach to minority hiring and the biases built into today’s artificial intelligence systems.Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Two months ago, Google promoted Timnit Gebru, co-lead of a group focused on ethical artificial intelligence, after she earned a high score on her annual employee appraisal. Gebru is one of the most high-profile Black women in her field and a powerful voice in the new field of ethical AI, which seeks to identity issues around bias, fairness, and responsibility.