#TimnitGebru

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

Let me tell how bad this is: Dr. @timnitGebru is probably one of THE MOST prominent Black women in AI and in SilIcon Valley. The same Silicon Valley where Black

Nando de Freitas

NandoDF

Another long thread. Bear with me till the end please. These are my views, and not necessarily of those associated with me. Though those associated with me have been incredibly

İlke Demir

ilkedemir

Ethical AI co-lead in Google, @timnitGebru, is "resignated" (thanks for the word @mmitchell_ai) because she demanded to know, by whom and why their paper (on the ethical questioning of large

David Sumpter

Soccermatics

I have spent much of today studying the Stochastic Parrots paper by @emilymbender, @timnitGebru, @mcmillan_majora and @mmitchell_ai. (http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Stochastic_Parrots.pdf) This paper is important for many reas

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

I have long admired @timnitGebru for her brilliance, moral courage, clear voice in speaking up for what is right, & influential scholarship. It is truly terrible that Google would do

Krishna Gade

krishnagade

What happened with @timnitGebru is just appalling! If it can happen to a celebrated AI researcher like her for taking a stance then imagine what can happen to an average

Piotr Szymański

niedakh

Arguments made by @emilymbender & @timnitGebru's seem controversial for En-NLP model building community because the scale of available data may give one an intuition that it's large enough to actually

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

Like @cfiesler, I've gotten a lot of "It's not the algorithm, it's the training data" explanations/responses over the years (including IRL when I give talks), and I want to explain

Avdi Grimm

avdi

OK I want to talk about this more.Reflecting on some recent examples of white men in tech trivializing or mocking concerns about racism, a common pattern is the belief that

Khari Johnson

kharijohnson

I spoke with @ruchowdh, @CjColclough, @UpFromTheCracks, @sonia__katyal, @IfeomaOzoma, and @JasmineMcNealy for a story about how Google firing Timnit Gebru could influence policy. Quotes from @timnitGebru and @red_abebe are also includedhttp

Leslie Miley

shaft

1/ I woke up thinking about #TimnitGebru and how #google and @JeffDean used the flimsiest of HR bullshit to fire her. And let's be clear, she was fired. How do

Elani Buchan

elanibuchan

1/Today's episode of The Journal @WSJ/@Gimletmedia got thinking about unions, the changing nature of how we work eg the #gigeconomy and what role #legaltech may play in that future cc

Deb Raji

rajiinio

The troubling thing about data is that, if you're Black, it's likely to contain lies about you. This piece gets at the heart of something that so much alarmed me

Yackar Mauzole, PhD

Sat_Oceans

Friday evening thought: I just want to get this off my chest for once (and also see what others think of that). This is the season where institutions are looking

Jeffrey Dastin

JLDastin

.⁦⁦⁦@Google⁩ this year tightened control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in 3 cases told authors to refrain from casting its tech in a negative

Emily M. Bender

emilymbender

I’ve picked up a bunch of new followers in the past few days, and I suspect many of you are here because you’re interested in what I might have to

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