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Aug 2022
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A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Mon...

HBR Presents / Brian Kenny
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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 resear ... Show More
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