Timnit Gebru

What she did

Coauthored Gender Shades and On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots and founded the Distributed AI Research Institute.

Impact and significance

Her research challenged evaluation methods that overlook unequal performance and the social costs of AI development. Gender Shades concerns the particular commercial gender-classification systems it tested.

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Works recorded in the archive

• Gender Shades (2018, with Joy Buolamwini)
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots (2021)
• Founded the Distributed AI Research Institute, DAIR (2021)
• Co-founded Black in AI

Sources and access

• Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru. Gender Shades. PMLR 81:77-91, 2018.

  Abstract and pp. 77-91

• Buolamwini, Joy and Gebru, Timnit. Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2018.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
• Bender, Emily M., Gebru, Timnit, et al. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2021.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.

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