The Quest for Ethical Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Timnit Gebru

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 4pm to 5pm

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Timnit Gebru will discuss why she founded the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) and what she hopes this interdisciplinary, community-based, global network of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers can accomplish.

Event Details

Event Type

Colloquia / Seminar / Lecture

Academics

Applied Computation Computer Science

Audience

Alumni Faculty General Public Graduate Students Researchers / Postdocs Staff Undergraduate Students Harvard Community SEAS Community

Website

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/eve...

Speaker 1

Timnit Gebru

Speaker Bio

Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google—where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team—in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace. She received her PhD from Stanford University and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City, in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Timnit also cofounded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility, and health of Black people in the field of AI; and is on the board of AddisCoder, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian high school students, free of charge.

Host

Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Contact

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Events Team

Email

events@radcliffe.harvard.edu

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