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A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?
Hosted by Brian Kenny / Harvard Business Review
A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?
Episode Summary
Dr. Timnit Gebru was the co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI research team –until she raised concerns about bias in the company’s large language models and was forced out in 2020. Her departure sent shockwaves through the AI and tech community ad raised fundamental questions about how companies safeguard against bias in their own AI. Should in-house ethics research continue to be led by researchers who best understand the technology, or must ethics and bias be monitored by more objective researchers who aren’t employed by companies?
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