Timnit Gebru

CTL-E-1100 · Institution · other · 2010s–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Ethiopian-born computer scientist; co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, co-author of the 'stochastic parrots' paper, co-founder of Black in AI and founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-102; source research type(s): None.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_in_AI
https://www.thebluf.news/p/timnit-gebru-not-a-feeling-a-fact
http://www.jwbrineiiifoundation.org/index-482.html (primary source)
https://businessabc.net/wiki/timnit-gebru

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