Today’s Summer School episode from the IBI Archive is episode 39 with Timnit Gebru an artificial intelligence researcher.  Timnit advocates for fair and just use of the technology we use everyday. A former employee of Google, Timnit consistently calls in and calls out a Big Tech industry that leverages power, capital, and bias in favor of, well, themselves and their wallets. From language to surveillance- Timnit knows the potential harms of artificial intelligence know no bounds.

In a time when we’re at war, today’s episode calls into question for whom we are fighting? Whose wars are worthy of discussion and what harms are so deeply ingrained within our consciousness that we ignore our own civilian casualties. As the world witnesses the 16th month of a war in Ethiopia, Timnint’s journey reminds us of the refugee, the warrior, and the heroes we often dismiss and determine unworthy of home. 

This conversation was recorded on Jan 27, 2022

Learn More about this topic 

• Rhua benjamin
• Simone browne (Dark Matters: on Surveillance of Blackness) 
• Coded bias 
• Tawana petty
• Support regulations to safeguard 
• Mar Hicks wrote op ed for Wired (tech historian)

Who to follow? 

• Algorithm justice league 
• Data society 
• Data for black lives
• AI Now 
• DAIR 

Other Things we mention 

 contentauthenticity.org 

The fairness doctrine  

Fairness doctrine washington post article 

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Host Dario Calmese