Timothy Stanley: I'm a huge fan of your work and I am very much looking forward to reading your book that given all that's on our plate. He says he got his PhD from a lab that's called the AI lab at Stanford, which is in computer science department. And so you can join supporters like Randy Weinstein from New York, Patrick from Chicago and Ben Finch from Boston by going to patreon.com slash tech won't save us if you want to do that. But with that said, enjoy this week's conversation.
Paris Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss the misleading framings of artificial intelligence, her experience of getting fired by Google in a very public way, and why we need to avoid getting distracted by all the hype around ChatGPT and AI image tools.
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute and former co-lead of the Ethical AI research team at Google. You can follow her on Twitter at @timnitGebru.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.
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