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A Prominent AI Ethics Researcher Says Google Fired Her – WIRED
Timnit Gebru is a leader among those examining the societal impacts of the technology. She had also criticized the company’s diversity efforts.
Before joining Google in 2018, Gebru worked with MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini on a project called Gender Shades that revealed face analysis technology from IBM and Microsoft was highly accurate for white men but highly inaccurate for Black women. It helped push US lawmakers and technologists to question and test the accuracy of face recognition on different demographics, and contributed to Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon announcing they would pause sales of the technology this year. Gebru also cofounded…
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