Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more Katyanna Quach Mon 22 Feb 2021 // 12:21 UTC Share Copy In brief Google has finished its probe into the controversial ousting of Timnit Gebru, co-leader of its Ethical AI unit. The ad giant promised to implement new procedures around “potentially sensitive employee exits,” though it did not make its findings public. Gebru said she was fired for warning coworkers in an internal memo that, due to management apathy, it was a waste of energy trying to foster diversity, equality, and inclusion within the Silicon Valley goliath. Google claimed she effectively resigned. Bosses had told her to remove her name from a research paper on the negative environmental and social effects of massive, power-hungry, biased language-processing neural networks like the ones used by Google. In the aftermath of that clash, Gebru said she told executives she would be comfortable remaining at the internet super-corp if certain conditions were met. That was treated as a resignation note by managers who turned down her requests. Many researchers within Google and in the wider AI community have rallied behind her in support.