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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan @ The Information · 11/07/2025 09:00 EDT

Google’s $2.7 Billion AI Hire Tests Company’s Speech Limits With Inflammatory Posts

This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company’s internal discussion forums, in response to a post about how Google employees could support their transgender and nonbinary colleagues on International Transgender Day of Visibility.

“I do not believe that humans have an attribute called gender,” Shazeer wrote, according to a copy of the post viewed by The Information. “I do not believe that G-d puts people in the wrong bodies. I do not believe that it is okay to sterilize c

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