alt Hacker NewsPressuring an employee to add unethical behavior or specific religious practices to their job description is constructive termination.
I'd say what's under debate is whether uncritical LLM adoption is mainly unethical or mainly religious.
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naasking • today at 4:22 PM
I don't see why it's those are the only two options, nor why they are even mutually exclusive.
This is not why she was fired and wouldn't have been a plausible reason in 2020 when it happened.
>Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.
This is Google's side of it; I think the following is a fair piece of primary-source journalism if you want to go deeper:
https://www.platformer.news/the-withering-email-that-got-an-...