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Google engineers stop after the corporate fired its star AI ethics researcher

Two Google engineers have stop over the firing of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, whose go out sparked an internal backlash about ethics and diversity.
Two Google engineers have quit over the firing of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, whose exit sparked an internal backlash about ethics and diversity.

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