cofounder of Black in AI on what’s poisoning algorithms in our lives – MIT Technology Review
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 9, 2023
Timnit Gebru looks around the AI world and sees almost no one who looks like her. That’s a problem for all of us.
Artificial intelligence is an increasingly seamless part of our everyday lives, present in everything from web searches to social media to home assistants like Alexa. But what do we do if this massively important technology is unintentionally, but fundamentally, biased? And what do we do if this massively important field includes almost no black researchers? Timnit Gebru is tackling these questions as part of Microsoft’s Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI . . .
