[andreyk]

Just FYI, as I said in another comment in this case "many (senior) researchers agreed with Gebru's opposition to LeCun's original point - see tweets by Charles Isbel, yoavgo, Dirk Hovy embedded here https://thegradient.pub/pulse-lessons/ under 'On the Source of Bias in Machine Learning Systems' (warning - it takes a while to load). There was a civil back-and-forth between him and these other researchers as you can see in that post, so it was a point worth discussing. Gebru mostly did not participate in this beyond her initial tweets as far as I remember."

Also, for anyone who thinks Gebru does not have real credentials as an AI researcher, she did get her doctorate at Fei-Fei Li's lab at Stanford (which is now the lab I am part of), and did research at both Microsoft and Google and has co-authored papers with a variety of other well respected researchers. Just sayin', she's obviously not as senior as Lecun but let's not caricature her as if she has no expertise in this area.