#TimnitGebru

Fernando Diaz

841io

yes, algorithms carry values and those values can promote ignorance, intolerance, and, harm. consider a supervised learning algorithm where instances are people. if using empirical risk minimization, errors for individuals

Karen Jaw-Madson

KarenJaw

Here's more background on the firing of Google's #AI Ethics Researcher, Dr. @timnitGebru here https://bit.ly/39MeGhP and here https://bit.ly/3gobBpt Thoughts from a #companyculture / #culture & #DEI standpoint (in no

Jenna Burrell

jennaburrell

I’m writing a review piece right now where I argue (with Marion Fourcade) that the “coding elite” are a quasi-occupational class that is increasingly powerful and also ill equipped to

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

Sadly, many folks love the idea of little girls coding, but don’t want to work with the adult women software engineers already at their company. There are similar dynamics around

Jenna Burrell

jennaburrell

I have some thoughts on Y*nn Lec*nn’s disappointing response on dataset bias (1/12) I’m writing a review piece right now where I argue (with Marion Fourcade) that the “coding elite”

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

My #BlackinDataJourney #BlackinDataWeek began with me working on a epidemiology project that drew on field data from Malawi. I had no idea how to code, but I was drawn to

Deb Raji

rajiinio

This is the first thing I also thought of after seeing this thread! If you're interested in computer vision x fairness, here are some good introductory papers I like:https://twitter.com/rahulkrdass/status/1275297369920331776 Some

Real Abril🌈

RealAbril

I'm finna tell yall why @Google fired me- their MOST successful diversity recruiter in the history of their company- with the receipts to support that statement. Reading about what happened

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Google workers have announced their intention to form a union, under the auspices of @CWAUnion Local 1440. The union is called @AlphabetWorkers (Google maintains the legal and accounting fiction that

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

late night thoughts: I am starting to believe that any institution that claims to be about diversity, equity, and inclusion is really about homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion. h/t @DrMonicaCox @ReignOfApril:

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WellsLucasSanto

i mention this a lot, but the tweets always seem to mysteriously get buried. a reminder elon musk is *not* the founder of tesla nor of its technologies. he bought

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

Interested in improving diversity in AI, or in tech in general? I have done a bunch of research on this and have some advice 1/https://twitter.com/NandoDF/status/1341699449861627913 First, what doesn’t work: shallow,

Roel Dobbe

roeldobbe

"Google is most likely renting [Deepmind] its TPUs [computational infrastructure] at a discount"Energy devouring AI-infrastructure hidden in another Alphabet business unit. And while they argue it's all green energy, there

David Bindel

DavidBindel

I spent the past couple days organizing and annotating my bookmark file, and much of today on the "JEDI" bookmarks, and wanted to re-up a few of particular note. The

Krishna Gade

krishnagade

2020 has been a crazy year for many reasons, but an issue that has come to the fore is the aspect of Bias, Ethics, and Censorship of Algorithms. A few

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

Y'all. Algorithms are WILD af. #CodedBias You can't question a computer, but the computer mistakes are justified because of efficiency. This is criminal. This is LITERALLY criminal, and fundamentally unethical.

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