Digital Alchemy - Timnit Gebru, Interdisciplinary, and Distributed AI Research Digital Alchemy

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.

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Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Timnit Gebru

Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Timnit Gebru
Founder & Executive Director | The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Cofounder, Black In AI
Twitter: @TimnitGebru
Works 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