Timnit Gebru information

Timnit Gebru
Timnit Gebru
	Gebru in 2018
Born	1982 or 1983 (age 40–41); Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Alma mater	Stanford University
Known for	Algorithmic bias; Fairness in machine learning;
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Microsoft Research; Google; Apple;
Doctoral advisor	Fei-Fei Li

Timnit Gebru (Amharic and Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist^[3] who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founder of Black in AI, a community of Black researchers working in AI. She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR).

In December 2020, public controversy erupted over the nature of Gebru's departure from Google, where she was technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team. Together with five co-authors, four of whom were also from Google, Gebru had authored a paper on the risks of large language models (LLMs) and submitted it for publication. Google management requested that Gebru either withdraw the paper or remove the names of all the authors employed by Google, claiming that the paper ignored recent research. Gebru requested an explanation and stated that if Google refused she would talk to her manager about "a last date". Google terminated her employment immediately, stating that they were accepting her resignation. Gebru maintained that she had not formally offered to resign, and only threatened to.

Gebru has been recognized widely for her expertise in the ethics of artificial intelligence. She was named one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and one of Nature's ten people who shaped science in 2021, and in 2022, one of Time's most influential people.

^ ^a ^b Metz, Cade; Wakabayashi, Daisuke (3 December 2020). "Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I." The New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020. After she and the other researchers submitted the paper to an academic conference, Dr. Gebru said, a Google manager demanded that she either retract the paper from the conference or remove her name and the names of the other Google employees. She refused to do so without further discussion and, in the email sent Tuesday evening, said she would resign after an appropriate amount of time if the company could not explain why it wanted her to retract the paper and answer other concerns. The company responded to her email, she said, by saying it could not meet her demands and that her resignation was accepted immediately. Her access to company email and other services was immediately revoked. In his note to employees, Mr. Dean said Google respected "her decision to resign". Mr. Dean also said that the paper did not acknowledge recent research showing ways of mitigating bias in such systems.
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^ Harwell, Drew; Tiku, Nitasha (5 December 2020). "Google's star AI ethics researcher, one of a few Black women in the field, says she was fired for a critical email". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 15 December 2023.

[NYT4-1] Metz, Cade; Wakabayashi, Daisuke (3 December 2020). "Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I." The New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020. After she and the other researchers submitted the paper to an academic conference, Dr. Gebru said, a Google manager demanded that she either retract the paper from the conference or remove her name and the names of the other Google employees. She refused to do so without further discussion and, in the email sent Tuesday evening, said she would resign after an appropriate amount of time if the company could not explain why it wanted her to retract the paper and answer other concerns. The company responded to her email, she said, by saying it could not meet her demands and that her resignation was accepted immediately. Her access to company email and other services was immediately revoked. In his note to employees, Mr. Dean said Google respected "her decision to resign". Mr. Dean also said that the paper did not acknowledge recent research showing ways of mitigating bias in such systems.

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[3] Harwell, Drew; Tiku, Nitasha (5 December 2020). "Google's star AI ethics researcher, one of a few Black women in the field, says she was fired for a critical email". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 15 December 2023.

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Timnit Gebru
Gebru in 2018
Born	1982 or 1983 (age 40–41)^[1] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia^[1]^[2]
Alma mater	Stanford University
Known for	Algorithmic bias Fairness in machine learning
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Microsoft Research Google Apple
Doctoral advisor	Fei-Fei Li