Google has cracked down on posts by a star AI researcher who made controversial comments about transgender people and accused some colleagues of antisemitism, according to a recent report.

Noam Shazeer – who became co-lead on development of Google’s flagship AI models after the tech giant bought his startup Character.AI for $2.7 billion – reportedly miffed colleagues with his response to a thread about International Transgender Day of Visibility in the spring.

“I do not believe that humans have an attribute called gender,” Shazeer wrote, news site the Information reported Friday. “I do not believe that G-d puts people in the wrong bodies. I do not believe that it is okay to sterilize children. You have the right to your beliefs. I do not share them.”

The post drew pushback from severa

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