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What happened at Pinterest fits an unnerving pattern in the tech industry that has fallen behind even legacy industries in diversity and inclusion. Janice Mins reports.
"We are trying to achieve pay equity across all genders and races in the world in our lifetime."
“You wouldn’t like this job,” she says she was told. Facebook is only 3.9 percent Black and is facing an EEOC investigation.
In September, Timnit Gebru, then co-leader of the ethical AI team at Google, sent a private message on Twitter to Emily Bender, a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington.
The workers said they endured racist comments, and sexual harassment
Companies pledged money and support for people of color. But some say they still face a hostile work environment for speaking out or simply doing their jobs.
Amazon talks up inclusion in public but fails behind the scenes, suit claims.
Execs vowed to fix issues with alleged unequal pay and bullying, but workers haven’t seen it.
Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers.
Big Tech has used its power to control the field of AI ethics and avoid accountability. Now, the ouster of Timnit Gebru is putting the movement for equitable tech in the spotlight.
The pandemic has allowed companies to expand an old practice of spying on workers. That’s a problem for their privacy and their power.
SO MUCH OVERKILL OMG. Somebody needs to be fired, and it ain't the janitor.
Humans are being crunched into a robot system working at a robot pace
Learn how to achieve 'zero trust' security model by fixing the missing link, the Device you're connected with.
Microsoft Teams isn't just there to make employees' lives easier. It's also there to give bosses data about so many things.
Scenarios requiring apologies.
Women are given feedback that puts them on the wrong path to leadership, according to new research. The study, published in The Leadership Quarterly journal, examined how male and female leaders are advised to develop.
Using contract as an ethics leverage point.
A group of Google artificial intelligence researchers sent a sweeping list of demands to management calling for new policies and leadership changes, escalating a conflict at one of the company’s prized units.