Why Is Google Investigating Its Ethical AI Lead?

Google is at it again. After firing Timnit Gebru over her research paper's'unacceptable' content, the company is now investigating Margaret Mitchell, co-leader of Google's Ethical AI team. According to Axios, Google found out Mitchell has been using automated scripts to go through her messages to find examples showing discriminatory treatment against Gebru before her account was locked. She had been allegedly documenting critical issues surrounding Gebru's firing. As per the statement provided by Google to Axios, their system detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts.