Timnit Gebru

Cargos

1. 2017 – 2018Postdoctoral researcher, FATE group, Microsoft ResearchFuente →
2. 2018 – dic 2020Co-lead, Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, GoogleDeparture in December 2020 followed Google's refusal to let the "Stochastic Parrots" paper be published under its name.Fuente →
3. 2 dic 2021 – actualidadFounder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)Her book "Deep Unlearning" (Atria/One Signal, Simon & Schuster) is scheduled for 16 February 2027.Fuente →

En el registro

1. 1 oct 2026 · Entrevista · Democracy Now!

   I have been warning that this kind of discussion about the fictional superintelligent machines that don’t exist and the so-called existential risks that they pose has been a ploy for regulatory capture. And I feel like when I saw this meeting announced, with self-policing and self-regulation and relying on the goodwill of these companies to self-regulate, and I — my first thought was that they got what they wanted.

   Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) en aquel momento

   Asked about President Trump and tech executives signing a voluntary set of safety standards that week. Her reply opens “Well, so, you know,”, which is dropped here; the rest is continuous. The same page carries the outlet’s own summary, in which she is reported as calling what is happening “regulatory capture” and saying the companies market their systems as “all-knowing, superpowerful, superintelligent” — fragments inside the reporter’s sentences, so they are not quoted here. The interview was broadcast the week she was awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award.

   The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru →

2. 13 ago 2026 · Entrevista · Democracy Now!

   These chatbots, like Claude or ChatGPT, are designed to make you believe that there's some sort of superhuman brain behind whatever is outputting these texts.

   Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) en aquel momento

   She added that "the path we're on right now was never a preordained path that we had to be on."

   "Deep Unlearning": Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias →

3. 14 abr 2024 · Artículo científico · First Monday

   the normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century

   Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) en aquel momento

   With Émile P. Torres; argues the AGI project concentrates power while harming marginalised groups.

   The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence →

4. 31 mar 2023 · Declaración · DAIR Institute

   It is dangerous to distract ourselves with a fantasized AI-enabled utopia or apocalypse which promises either a "flourishing" or "potentially catastrophic" future. … The harms from so-called AI are real and present and follow from the acts of people and corporations deploying automated systems.

   Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) en aquel momento

   Joint statement with Emily M. Bender and Angelina McMillan-Major responding to the Future of Life Institute's pause letter.

   Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter →

5. mar 2021 · Artículo científico · ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '21)

   A methodology that relies on datasets too large to document is therefore inherently risky.

   From "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" (Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, Shmitchell); the sentence was quoted from the draft by MIT Technology Review on 4 December 2020, the week Google forced her out.

   We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here's what it says. →