Introducing Distributed AI Research Institute
Speaker: Dr. Timnit Gebru
- 17:00 18th January 2022 ( Hilary Term 2022 )Online
Dr. Timnit Gebru joining us to talk about DAIR -- a research institute set to counter big tech's pervasive influence on the research, development and deployment of AI.
(Registration closes 2 hours before the beginning of the seminar).
Speaker bio
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. 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 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 highs chool students, free of charge.Share this:
