May 25 2023
Digital Alchemy - Timnit Gebru, Interdisciplinary, and Distributed AI Research
In this episode, Moya Bailey speaks with Timnit Gebru about how her personal life, being born and raised in Ethiopia, and her professional life, most recently working at Google, has prepared her for her most recent efforts as Founder of the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute. She describes DAIR’s goals to build a distributed, interdisciplinary and diverse coalition to collectively identity and combat algorithmic bias against marginalized communities.Click here for the episode transcript FeaturingMoya Bailey Timnit GebruSponsor:Northwestern University School of Communication More from our guests: Moya BaileyAssociate Professor | Department of Communication StudiesNorthwestern UniversityDigital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy NetworkBoard President, Allied Media ProjectsTwitter: @moyazbIG: @transformisogynoirTimnit GebruFounder & Executive Director | The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)Cofounder, Black In AITwitter: @TimnitGebruWorks Referenced in Episode: Cade Metz and Daisuke Wakabayashi (December 3, 2020). Google researcher says she was fired over paper highlighting bias in A.I. New York Times, December 3, 2020.Raji, I. D., Gebru, T., Mitchell, M., Buolamwini, J., Lee, J., & Denton, E. (2020, February). Saving face: Investigating the ethical concerns of facial recognition auditing. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 145-151).Copy and Audio Editor: Dominic Bonelli Executive Producer:DeVante Brown