Timnit Gebru

A year ago, the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Researcher of GOOGLE Timnit Gebru did tweet “ I was fired” and started a controversy over the liberty of employees to interrogate the effect of their company’s technology. She launched a new research institute to inquire about the liable use of AI that Gebru…

Artificial Intelligence is pervasive in today’s modern society. The tech giants like Google and Facebook champion AI and are at the vanguard of its deployment in all sectors of our economy. …

Gender bias is not malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the opposite. It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia and is therefore a kind of not thinking.[1] Well, damn: it does bring comfort to know it is a side effect of stupidity. 8th of March: a.m. Twitter is on fire: Meghan Markle and Oprah interview. Quote: “Were you silent, or were you silenced?” …

What does Timnit Gebru’s firing and the recent papers coming out of Google tell us about the state of research at the world’s biggest AI research department. The high point for Google’s research in to Artifical Intelligence may well turn out to be the 19th of October 2017. This was…

“I want to give a call to action to people who believe diversity is important. Because it is an emergency, and we have to do something about it now.” — Timnit Gebru When I first learned about Timnit Gebru’s work, I was struck with awe. I could feel the sense…

Dr. Timnit Gebru, a black woman doing foundational and beyond-words-important research in AI Ethics, was fired by Google. I’m a white woman, and this is my summary of watching the developments on Twitter in the first few days. Originally written 12/4/2020. I #BelieveBlackWomen. I especially know that when such an…

The bad juju at Google Developers (GOOGLE) continues.

The Week in Tweets: The Sedition Edition by Neil Turkewitz In a week when 126 Republican members of Congress joined 18 Republican Attorneys General in an unprecedented challenge to the foundation of our very democracy — something that former RNC Chairman Michael Steele called “an affront to the country…an offense…

With the recent news coming from Google about the firing of Lead AI Ethics researcher Dr. Timnit Gebru, AI Ethics is in the spotlight. After reading about the firing of Dr. Gebru, a couple of questions immediately comes to mind; are tech giants like Google shaping and controlling the narrative…