"I started crying": Inside Timnit Gebru's last days at Google--and what happens next

The following week, she took part in several workshops at NeurIPS, the largest annual AI research conference, which over 20,000 people attended this year. It was "therapeutic," she says, to see how the community she'd helped build showed up and supported one another. Now, another week later, she's just winding down and catching her breath--and trying to make sense of it all. On Monday, December 14, I caught up with Gebru via Zoom. She recounted what happened during her time at Google, reflected on what it meant for the field and AI ethics research, and gave parting words of advice to those who want to keep holding tech companies accountable.