It’s not like she’s an ombudsman for Google. If she has concerns she should voice those concerns internally. If she doesn’t feel that her concerns are being taken seriously, she should quit. On the way out the door, she should tell her story.
It’s honestly just basic professionalism. Don’t publicly trash your employer.
I'm curious how you think someone who is a professional ethicist is supposed to do their job without being allowed to comment on ethics.
It's not a cog-in-a-machine profession. Having critical opinions is what the job is about.
It's literally stupid for a corporation to employ an ethicist and then somehow be outraged and appalled when they have their ethics questioned and challenged.
Wanted to write this exact same reply before I saw yours.
She was not a general ethicist at google. Her job was not to comment on the ethical issues of employment. Her ethics role was AI specific and none of this has anything to do with AI
I'm curious why you think she was fired for having critical opinions as opposed to grossly unprofessional conduct. She could have done her job just fine without throwing her colleagues under a bus, badmouthing her employer in the press, and having a paranoid meltdown because her paper didn't pass peer review. Being an ethicist doesn't give you the right to act like an asshole.
It’s honestly just basic professionalism. Don’t publicly trash your employer.