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- Sam Altman's high-profile firing has drawn comparisons to Timnit Gebru's exit from Google.
- Gebru, a well-respected AI researcher, no longer works at Google after authoring a paper on biases in AI.
- Some tech observers and "Black Twitter" asked: "What if Sam Altman were a Black woman?"
High-profile public firings in tech are nothing new. Sam Altman's shocking ouster— and reinstatement — to OpenAI drew comparisons to Steve Jobs's exit and eventual return to Apple. But a less obvious comparison has been drawn that asks the question: "What if Sam Altman was a Black Woman?"