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Timnit Gebru

Founder and Executive Director of the Distributed AI Research Institute.

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Connected to 13 published stories. Open a story for context and original sources.

Timnit Gebru argues LaMDA sentience claims distract from existing AI harms

Read story →Feb 2, 2022

Alex Hanna and Dylan Baker announce moves from Google to DAIR

Read story →Dec 2, 2021

Timnit Gebru launches DAIR for community-centered AI research

Read story →Jun 30, 2021

GAO publishes an AI accountability framework for federal agencies

Read story →Jun 30, 2021

Gebru and Mitchell criticize corporate treatment of their language-model risk research

Read story →Mar 10, 2021

Bender, Gebru and colleagues present Stochastic Parrots at FAccT

Read story →Feb 19, 2021

Google fires Ethical AI co-lead Margaret Mitchell

Read story →Dec 3, 2020

Timnit Gebru says Google fired her; Jeff Dean describes acceptance of a resignation

Read story →Jun 21, 2020

Gebru and hardmaru challenge LeCun’s framing of bias in face upsampling

Read story →Jan 29, 2019

IBM releases Diversity in Faces to study facial-analysis fairness

Read story →Oct 11, 2018

Timnit Gebru and Zachary Lipton debate whether “an AI” overstates a system’s abilities

Read story →Mar 20, 2018

Timnit Gebru challenges the claim that surveillance is a neutral tool

Read story →Feb 11, 2018

Buolamwini and Gebru report unequal error rates in commercial gender classification