Theory Classes Semester B (Year 2)

Timnit Gebru:

 


Timnit Gebru is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining.

In 2001, Gebru was accepted at Stanford University. There she earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering and her PhD in computer vision in 2017. Gebru was advised during her PhD program by Fei-Fei Li.

She says she was fired after sending an internal email that accused Google of "silencing marginalized voices". Dr Gebru alleges that as she was preparing to go on leave, she was called to a meeting about a research paper she had co-written.

She said she was ordered to retract the research paper and that Google was not prepared to engage in a discussion about the matter.

 

In June 2021, Gebru announced that she was raising money to "launch an independent research institute modelled on her work on Google's Ethical AI team and her experience in Black in AI."

Gebru has used the acronym TESCREAL to criticize what she sees as a group of overlapping futuristphilosophies: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism,  , Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. She considers this to be a right-leaning influence in Big Tech and compares proponents to "the eugenicists of the 20th century" in their production of harmful projects they portray as "benefiting humanity"

Gebru, Buolamwini, and Inioluwa Deborah Raji won VentureBeat's 2019 AI Innovations Award in the category AI for Good for their research highlighting the significant problem of algorithmic bias in facial recognition. Gebru was named one of the world's 50 greatest leaders by Fortune in 2021. Gebru was included in a list of ten scientists who had had important roles in scientific developments in 2021 compiled by the scientific journal Nature.

Gebru was named one of Time's most influential people of 2022.

In 2023, Gebru was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Awards.

In November 2023, she was named to the BBC's 100 Women list.


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