{"id":73634,"date":"2021-01-04T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73634"},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:13:14","slug":"timnit-gebrus-exit-from-google-exposes-a-crisis-in-ai-hanna-whittaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/01\/04\/timnit-gebrus-exit-from-google-exposes-a-crisis-in-ai-hanna-whittaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Timnit Gebru\u2019s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI [Hanna &#038; Whittaker]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/timnit-gebru-exit-google-exposes-crisis-in-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Timnit Gebru\u2019s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from wired.com by Alex Hanna and Meredith Whittaker<br \/>\n<em>The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here\u2019s where to start, according to a current and a former Googler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It was against this backdrop that Google\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/behind-paper-led-google-researchers-firing\/\">fired Timnit Gebru<\/a>, our dear friend and colleague, and a leader in the field of artificial intelligence. She is also one of the few Black women in AI research and an unflinching advocate for bringing more BIPOC, women, and non-Western people into the field. By any measure,\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thegradient.pub\/the-far-reaching-impacts-of-timnit-gebru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/thegradient.pub\/the-far-reaching-impacts-of-timnit-gebru\/&quot;}\">she excelled<\/a>\u00a0at the job Google hired her to perform, including demonstrating racial and gender disparities in facial-analysis technologies and developing reporting guidelines for data sets and AI models. Ironically, this and her vocal advocacy for those underrepresented in AI research are also the reasons, she says,\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/12\/23\/google-timnit-gebru-ai-ethics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/12\/23\/google-timnit-gebru-ai-ethics\/&quot;}\">the company fired her<\/a>. According to Gebru, after demanding that she and her colleagues withdraw a research paper\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/12\/04\/1013294\/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/12\/04\/1013294\/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru\/&quot;}\">critical<\/a>\u00a0of (profitable) large-scale AI systems, Google Research told her team that it had accepted her resignation, despite the fact that she hadn\u2019t resigned. (Google declined to comment for this story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timnit Gebru\u2019s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI &#8212; from wired.com by Alex Hanna and Meredith Whittaker The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here\u2019s where to start, according to a current and a former Googler. Excerpt: It was against this backdrop that Google\u00a0fired Timnit Gebru, our dear friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,174,63,480,293,454,195,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-google","category-society","category-sociology","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73635,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73634\/revisions\/73635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}