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.