Timnit Gebru

Person. AI ethics researcher who anchors the accountability wing of the field. Co-authored Gender Shades (with Joy Buolamwini — facial recognition's race/gender error gaps) and "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots," the LLM-critique paper whose fallout led to her high-profile ouster from Google's Ethical AI team (2020). Founded DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute) to do community-rooted AI research outside Big Tech.

In this corpus she appears via the "women who tried to warn us about AI" thread — the pre-ChatGPT bias/harms critique tradition — connected to Algorithmic Bias and AI Ethics.

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Related: Google · AI Safety · AI Ethics · AI Bias · Algorithmic Bias · Openai · Algorithmic Fairness · Chatgpt

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• A Google researcher – who said she was fired after pointing out biases in AI – says companies won't 'self-regulate' because of the AI 'gold rush' — Timnit Gebru warns AI gold rush prevents corporate self-regulation on bias
• A former Google researcher behind a seminal AI paper describes how the company lost a top chatbot visionary — Google's reputational caution caused it to miss chatbot opportunity
• AI Debate 2: Night of a thousand AI scholars — Sixteen scholars debate moving AI beyond deep learning
• GitHub - daviddao/awful-ai: Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness — Curated list cataloguing harmful and unethical real-world AI deployments
• Google AI Zones Out While Being Trained On Mandatory Racial Sensitivity Data Set — Satirical piece mocking AI bias training and AI overconfidence
• Google says it's committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn't so sure. — Google ethical AI team dysfunction after Timnit Gebru firing
• These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI — Women researchers warned of AI bias harms
• What a machine learning tool that turns Obama white can (and can't) tell us about AI bias — PULSE face upscaler outputs white faces exposing dataset and structural AI bias