[PunchTornado]

What I do know is that you don't hire a PR team to make you look bad. You hire them to make you look good.

You don't hire an ethicist to make you look bad. You hire them to make you look good at what you do: diversity in AI. Gebru failed at her job.

[raxxorrax]

I think you aren't necessarily wrong that internal committees like this are about PR. It is simple industry self-regulation. Expectations should be adjusted accordingly.

But that would also mean Google exploited her for that.