Fired Google AI Engineer’s Whistleblower Lawsuit Moves Ahead
- Judge tentatively rejects company’s request to toss complaint
- Satrajit Chatterjee claims research paper overhyped technology
Satrajit Chatterjee claims that Google, by hyping its AI research, was attempting to defraud shareholders and the public.
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Google lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by an engineer who claims he was fired for challenging a paper the company published that touted the ability of artificial intelligence to speed the design of computer chips.
In a tentative ruling Wednesday, a California state judge rejected the Alphabet Inc. unit’s request to throw out Satrajit Chatterjee’s wrongful termination and whistleblower protection claims. Chatterjee is at least the third researcher to be ousted by Google after butting heads with the company over the use of AI.