Former Amazon AI scientist Dr. Vivian Ghadelli claims she faced discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination against the tech giant for disclosing her pregnancy and raising concerns about copyright infringement in AI research. filed a lawsuit.
register report Dr. Vivian Gaderi, a former high-flying AI scientist at Amazon, claims she was demoted and eventually fired after returning to work after giving birth, according to a complaint filed last week in Los Angeles state court. Ghaderi, who previously had success with Amazon’s Alexa and LLM teams and achieved several promotions, began her troubles in September 2022 when she revealed she was pregnant to his new boss, Daniel Marc. It is claimed that
Surprised by the news, Maluku asked Ghaderi to report to another employee, Mahesh Krishnakumar, on a “temporary basis” to avoid “worrying” about managing his team while he was on leave, according to the complaint. He reportedly told her that he would be transferred. Ghaderi claims that she was later pressured by Krishnakumar to delay the start of her maternity leave, which she ultimately took on November 15, 2022, when she underwent an emergency caesarean section.
Ghaderi, who returned to work in January 2023, claimed to have taken over a large language modeling project and was responsible for reporting violations of Amazon’s internal copyright policies. But when she raised her concerns about copyright infringement with team director Andrei Sutiskin, he challenged her to understand why Amazon wasn’t meeting its goals when it came to Alexa’s search quality. He allegedly instructed her to ignore copyright policies in order to improve. Other people are doing it. ”
Ms Ghaderi also said that Mr Krishnakumar had made discriminatory and harassing comments such as, “Don’t worry, I have a young daughter and I know how difficult it is to be a woman with a newborn.” He also claims that he was refused permission to return to his career. . After filing a complaint with human resources about alleged discrimination and retaliation, Ghaderi said she was removed from the team, demoted, and made to participate in informal and formal performance evaluation programs with unrealistic goals. Told.
The lawsuit requests a jury trial and names Amazon.com Services, Inc., Andrei Stiskin and Mahesh Krishnakumar as defendants, alleging violations of employment laws against sex discrimination, maternity leave laws, harassment and retaliation. It cited seven causes, including protection from fraudsters and failure to take measures against fraudulent activities. Prevent discrimination and protect whistleblowers and unfair dismissals.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering free speech and online censorship issues.
