Timnit Gebru is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining.
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Timnit Gebru
Computer Scientist, Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR); Working to Increase Diversity & Reduce Racial Bias in AI
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Timnit Gebru is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founder of Black in AI, a community of black researchers working in artificial intelligence.
She is a former research scientist in the Ethical AI team at Google. While at Google, she finished her postdoc in the Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research, New York. Prior to that, she was a PhD student in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studying computer vision under Fei-Fei Li.
Her main research interest is in data mining large-scale, publicly available images to gain sociological insight, and working on computer vision problems that arise as a result, including fine-grained image recognition, scalable annotation of images, and domain adaptation. She is currently studying the ethical considerations underlying any data mining project, and methods of auditing and mitigating bias in sociotechnical systems.
The New York Times, MIT Tech Review and others have recently covered her work.
As a co-founder of the group Black in AI, she works to both increase diversity in the field and reduce the negative impacts of racial bias in training data used for human-centric machine learning models.
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Timnit Gebru: Is AI racist and antidemocratic? | Talk to Al Jazeera
AI Ethics Researcher Timnit Gebru's Firing Doesn’t Look Good For Google
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