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AI: The Origin Story

The Next Big Idea

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AI - The Problem of Bias in AI

Timneet Gebru is an AI researcher, her family comes from Ethiopia. The problem of bias starts to hit home for her at Stanford. She and a tiny group of others wind up at Google trying to deal with this problem. As sort of their efforts to do this start to clash with efforts to get this technology out into the world, she ends up being ousted from the company along with another key researcher,. There is a real tension there.

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