Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru

An Eritrean-Ethiopian-American computer scientist known for research on algorithmic bias in facial recognition, and for co-authoring, with lead author Emily M. Bender and Margaret Mitchell among others, the widely cited 2021 paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots", which raised early, influential concerns about the risks of ever-larger language models. Her departure from Google's AI ethics team in 2020 became a high-profile case study in the tension between corporate AI labs and internal critics; she went on to found the independent research institute DAIR. (See also: Emily M. Bender, Algorithmic bias, Hallucination)