Timnit Gebru used to believe it was possible to curb tech giants’ worst impulses from the inside out. She tried it herself at Microsoft, where in 2018 she coauthored a seminal paper that revealed just ...

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, a discussion on the past year in artificial intelligence. Paris Marx Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, ...

Timnit Gebru—a giant in the world of AI and then co-lead of Google’s AI ethics team—was pushed out of her job in December. The backlash was immediate. Thousands of Googlers and outside researchers ...

*A year ago, Google fired AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who is Black, for criticizing the company’s lack of diversity. Now she is launching a new artificial intelligence institute after reportedly being ...

A computer scientist who said she was pushed out of her job at Google in December 2020 has marked the one-year anniversary of her ouster with a new research institute aiming to support the creation of ...

Dr. Timnit Gebru on Thursday announced her post-Google plans for fostering the ethical development of artificial intelligence technology — launching an independent research institute of her own. The ...

As a leading researcher on the ethics of artificial intelligence, Timnit Gebru has long believed that machine-learning algorithms could one day power much of our lives. What she didn’t predict was ...

For the second time around in a timeline of only three months, another prominent researcher on ethics within the Artificial Intelligence field noted that Google had fired her. On Friday, the Google ...