Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team. Timnit also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI, and is on the board of AddisCoder, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian highschool students, free of charge. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). (Video/ BIDS) Google forced out Timnit Gebru in 2020 after trying to stop the release of her team’s paper on the risks of large language models, the kind of tool underpinning the giant’s search engine. She received her PhD from Stanford University, and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Timnit Gebru spoke at a BIDS discussion group on April 4. ![]() Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). She’s a Stanford Alumna earning her Bachelor’s and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering, along with her Ph.D. dair institute OpenAI Transportation Kate raises 7. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). ![]() Speaker Bio: Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Timnit Gebru, Founder and Executive Director, DAIR Timnit Gebru is an absolute force to be reckoned with. Timnit Gebru will give an overview of the DAIR Institute and what the institute hopes to achieve.
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