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Insider Q&A: Ex-Google AI skeptic Timnit Gebru starts anew

When she co-led Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was a prominent insider voice questioning the tech industry’s approach to artificial intelligence. That was before Google pushed her out of the company more than a year ago. Now Gebru is trying to make change from the outside as the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, or DAIR. Born to Eritrean parents in Ethiopia, Gebru spoke with The Associated Press recently about how poorly Big Tech’s AI… Source link

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Ex-Google scientist Gebru opens AI institute year after tumultuous exit

Dec 2 (Reuters) – Timnit Gebru, the computer scientist whose disputed exit from Google’s (GOOGL.O) artificial intelligence research team prompted debate across the tech industry about diversity and censorship, said on Thursday she has launched a small lab to continue her work freely. The Distributed AI Research Institute has raised $3.7 million from foundations and aims to critically study services from big tech companies as well as propose AI-based solutions to issues such as food insecurity… Source link

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Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

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Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

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Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An engineering director and a software developer have quit Alphabet Inc’s Google over the dismissal of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts at the search giant over diversity and ethics. David Baker, a director focused on user safety, left Google last month after 16… Source link

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Timnit Gebru: Tensions in Google’s ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to Sundar Pichai

The letter, sent to CEO Sundar Pichai, is titled “The future of Ethical AI at Google.” It lays out the moves the researchers want the company to make in order to “rebuild trust” with the team and create an environment in which they can continue their work. The team researches the ethical repercussions of artificial intelligence and advises the company on AI policies and products. It comes in the wake of the sudden exit of Timnit Gebru, who until early December was the co-leader of Google’s… Source link

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Timnit Gebru, a Black tech ethicist, talks about leaving Google.

Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2018. Kimberly White/Getty Images Subscribe to What Next on Apple Podcasts for the full episode. Earlier this fall, A.I. ethicist Timnit Gebru submitted a paper for consideration at an academic conference about predictive language models: on their environmental cost, and how they could learn racist and… Source link

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