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For truly ethical AI, its research must be independent from big tech | Timnit Gebru

For truly ethical AI, its research must be independent from big tech | Timnit Gebru


For truly ethical AI, its research must be independent from big tech | Timnit Gebru
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A year ago I found out, from one of my direct reports, that I had apparently resigned. I had just been fired from Google in one of the most disrespectful ways I could imagine.

Other platforms like YouTube have not received the scrutiny they warrant, despite studies and articles showing examples of how they are used by various groups, including regimes, to harass citizens. Twitter and especially TikTok, Telegram and Clubhouse have the same issues but are discussed much less. When I wrote a paper outlining the harms posed by models trained using data from these platforms, I was fired by Google.

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