Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Timnit Gebru (she/her).

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social

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Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace and writing about the dangers of large language models: wired.com/story/google-timnit-.

Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute (dair-institute.org/) to work on community-rooted AI research.

Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria

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🗣️🗣️🗣️ Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.

When

, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. Unlike Tigrayans whose sisters were being raped & parents murdered, I didn’t know exactly what was happening on the ground & who to believe. But I saw the genocidal speech targeting Tigrayans on social media, particularly from Eritreans, in Tigrinya. 🧵

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