We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google — here’s what it says

The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, key for Google. Timnit Gebru, who was the technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team, was fired in December 2020, over an email referencing a dispute over a research paper — and more broadly, frustration at Google’s diversity programs. Here, Karen Hao takes a look at what was in the paper for MIT Technology Review.