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Timnit Gebru (Amharic and Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining.
Dec 4, 2020 · Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people...
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). 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.
Jun 8, 2021 · One afternoon in late November of last year, Timnit Gebru was sitting on the couch in her San Francisco Bay Area home, crying. Gebru, a researcher at Google, had just clicked out of a...
Jan 18, 2022 · Gebru is a leading figure in a constellation of scholars, activists, regulators and technologists collaborating to reshape ideas about what AI is and what it should be. Some of her...
Dec 16, 2020 · Gebru, a leading voice in AI ethics, was one of the only Black women at Google Research. The move has since sparked a debate about growing corporate influence over AI, the long-standing...
Dec 8, 2020 · Timnit Gebru, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher, says she was fired after refusing to retract or take her name off an academic paper. Photograph: CODY O'LOUGHLIN/Redux
