{"id":8612,"date":"2021-04-06T21:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/06\/revered-ai-researcher-samy-benagio-quits-google-brain\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:12:32","slug":"revered-ai-researcher-samy-benagio-quits-google-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/06\/revered-ai-researcher-samy-benagio-quits-google-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Revered AI Researcher Samy Benagio Quits Google Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Samy Bengaio, a team lead in Google&#8217;s research architecture Brain, becomes the latest name to quit the foundation, since its controversial firing of ethics AI researcher Timnit Gebru in December 2020. <br \/>Gebru was the co-lead in Benagio&#8217;s team and was the co-founder of Black in AI.   <br \/>In a mail obtained by CNBC, Benagio wrote, &#8220;This is one of the most difficult emails I can think of sending to all of you: I have decided to leave Google in order to pursue other exciting opportunities&#8221;.   <br \/>While Benagio doesn&#8217;t relate his decision with the sacking of Gebru, sources believe Google&#8217;s handling of Gebru&#8217;s case has prompted multiple researchers to quit the tech giant. Benagio had also publicly mentioned that he was not made aware of Gebru&#8217;s sacking.   <br \/>Margaret Mitchell, another co-lead to Gebru, was also shown the door under file transferring allegations. CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Sundar Pichai ensured a thorough investigation of the fallout, but the company concluded in February that they have made certain changes to the research policies declining to publish any results.   <br \/>Benagio, in his mail, praised his team saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned so much with all of you, in terms of machine learning research of course, but also on how difficult yet important it is to organize a large team of researchers as to promote long term ambitious research, exploration, rigor and diversity and inclusion.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Business News<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Revered AI Researcher Samy Benagio Quits Google Brain<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-06 21:12:32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samy Bengaio, a team lead in Google&#8217;s research architecture Brain, becomes the latest name to quit the foundation, since its controversial firing of ethics AI researcher Timnit Gebru in December&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1563089145-599997674d42?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}