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1982–1983 Ethiopia

Timnit Gebru (Amharic and Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research.

Ethiopia
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Impacts people all over the world and they don’t get to have a say on how they should shape it.

My hope is that our work counteracts the drive to centralize power and disenfranchise human beings.

We have many people who are each working to support their communities in some way and sharing profits back.

A lot of the people who are making money are not the people actually in the midst of it.

I want to live in a world where instead of there being one company in one place in the world with one dominant model.

I’ve met so many people like you who think that they can just come here from other countries and take the hardest classes.

AI tools that actually help people and not try to replace them.

Overrepresent hegemonic viewpoints and encode biases potentially damaging to marginalised populations.

We aim to expose the harms of the current AI system, serving as an early warning system to stop their spread.

The primary motivation with all of these AI technologies is either to have more warfare or to have more profit.

Generative AI is not just about creating something new, but about capturing what was once impossible to express.”

It’s humans who decide whether all this should be done or not.

You don’t want someone like me who’s going to get in your way.

I think it made it really clear that unless there is external pressure to do something different, companies are not just going to self regulate.

I want a different kind of root motivation for technology that puts human welfare first.

I want to live in a world where we’re not trying to disenfranchise humans or devalue labor.

We need regulation and we need something better than just a profit motive.

We should remember that we have the agency to do that.

“Even at places like Stanford, we have too much concentrated power that is impacting the world, and yet the world has no opportunity to affect how technology is being developed."

We focus on where AI tools are being experimented with before they get to the rest of the society and uncover what happens to the people.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Timnit Gebru (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.