Timnit Gebru, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (USA)

Timnit Gebru is the Founder and Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). She was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising discrimination issues in the workplace, where she served as co-leader of the ethics research team at Artificial Intelligence (AI). He completed his PhD at Stanford University, having also carried out a post-doctorate at Microsoft Research, in New York, in the FATE group (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI), where he studied the algorithmic bias and the underlying ethical implications of projects with the objective to gain insights from data. Timnit was also a co-founder of Black in AI, a non-profit organization working to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of people of color in the AI field.

Abstract

In a world where Big Tech has amassed (too) much power what can we do to hold them accountable?

Google, Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Apple, and Microsoft. Together these five tech giants dominate their respective areas of technology and provide services to millions of users worldwide. Together, they have power (and data) at a planetary scale that allows them to monitor, experiment and manipulate individual and collective behavior and knowledge. In this conversation, Timnit Gebru who was fired from Google for calling attention to the ethics of AI, will discuss how to increase the accountability of Big Tech to reign in their power.

Chair: Ana Viseu

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