[britch]

I'm not seeing the connection between your comment and the Gerbu's firing.

As I understand it Gerbu was hired as an academic to do research into AI ethics (her field of study). She was fired, in part, due to a disagreement around the contents of a paper she was publishing.

Where is the sidewalking into engineering matters?

[metabagel]

I haven’t the foggiest idea what “sidewalking into engineering matters” (from the parent comment) means. Is that a British expression? I’ve only ever heard “sidewalk” used as a noun.