Google Hired Her to Find AI’s Harms. When She Found Them, They Pushed Her Out — and the Numbers She Measured Are Still True.
Timnit Gebru turned “AI is biased” from a worry into a measurement — proving commercial facial recognition misread darker-skinned women 34.7% of the time, versus under 1% for lighter-skinned men. When she warned that today’s AI language models carry the same flaw at far greater scale, her career at Google ended in a public rupture: she says she was fired, Google says she resigned. She built her own research institute and kept measuring. The numbers haven’t changed.
Spy Agencies of Five Nations Just Issued a Rare Joint Warning on AI
The Five Eyes cyber security agencies (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) issued a rare joint statement warning that frontier AI will transform offensive cyber capabilities 'in months, not years' — days after a US order barring foreign nationals from Anthropic's two most powerful models forced the company to switch them off for everyone.
Anthropic's Newest Model Lasted Three Days
In one week, Anthropic launched its most powerful model, got caught quietly hobbling it, apologized — and then watched the U.S. government pull it off the market entirely. Two of those stories are connected. The third one isn’t, and that’s the part to get right.