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Jun 8, 2021 · She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
Dec 4, 2020 · Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of...
Jan 18, 2022 · Google hired Gebru in 2018 to help ensure that its AI products did not perpetuate racism or other societal inequalities. In her role, Gebru hired prominent researchers of color, published several...
Dec 31, 2020 · According to Gebru, after demanding that she and her colleagues withdraw a research paper critical of (profitable) large-scale AI systems, Google Research told her team that it had accepted her...
2018–2020: Artificial intelligence ethics at Google. Gebru joined Google in 2018, where she co-led a team on the ethics of artificial intelligence with Margaret Mitchell. She studied the implications of artificial intelligence, looking to improve the ability of technology to do social good.
Dec 3, 2020 · Timnit Gebru, who was a co-leader of Google’s Ethical A.I. team, said in a tweet on Wednesday evening that she was fired because of an email she had sent a day earlier to a group that...
Dec 8, 2020 · Timnit Gebru was one of seven authors on a study that examined prior research on training artificial intelligence models to understand language.
Dec 16, 2020 · Gebru, a leading voice in AI ethics, was one of the only Black women at Google Research. The move has since sparked a debate about growing corporate influence over AI, the long-standing lack of...
Dec 4, 2020 · Hundreds of Google staff have signed a letter backing a leading AI ethics researcher who was sacked by Google. Timnit Gebru says she was fired after sending an internal email that accused...
Dec 18, 2020 · Gebru co-founded Black in AI, a group formed to encourage people of color to pursue careers in artificial intelligence research. For Google, bringing on Gebru lent credibility to the tech...
