Samy Bengio

Samy Bengio is stepping down months after Google ousted two of his employees over a controversial paper that criticized the company's search algorithm.

(Reuters) -Google research manager Samy Bengio on Tuesday said he is resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc...

In the memo, obtained by Business Insider, employees called on leadership to offer Gebru her position back "at a higher level."

Google research manager Samy Bengio, who oversaw the company's AI ethics group until a controversy led to the ouster of two female leaders, resigned on Tuesday to pursue other opportunities.

It comes after executives admitted to losing the trust of employees amid the departure of renowned researcher Timnit Gebru.

Yoshua and Samy Bengio, Yann Lecun, Rich Sutton and Sergey Levine talk about the future of machine learning and how unsupervised learning methods will likely get us to human-level intelligence in machines.

In an email to colleagues, Bengio said he'd learned it was 'difficult but important' to foster diversity.

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Dr. Gebru did not resign, despite what Jeff Dean (Senior Vice President and head of Google Research), has publicly stated. Dr. Gebru has stated this plainly, and others have meticulously documented…

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Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices.

Samy Bengio is the highest ranking Google employee to leave the company as its AI division has been thrown into turmoil.

It's the highest ranking team member to resign after AI researcher Timnit Gebru's was fired.

Google research manager Samy Bengio on Tuesday said he is resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices.

Timnit Gebru's colleagues challenge claims she resigned while more than 1,800 sign petition of solidarity

Google's decision to fire two of its top AI ethics researchers, Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, has created a serious backlash against the company. Researchers say Google is censoring work that's overly critical of its technology.

A Google researcher who oversaw the company's artificial intellig...

Computer scientists are beginning to refuse to review Google AI papers until Google changes its stance on former ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru.

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