In graduate school at Stanford, I realized that they had literally only graduated one black person ever with a PhD in computer science ever. In 2016, I read the ProPublica article on crime recidivism. And then there it's going to be used like just, you know, could imagine the issues and how other people were not really caring about these potential issues. So all of these things sort of happened at the same time.
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.
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