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Ex-Google AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Starts Nonprofit Research Lab

By Sarah Krouse
· · Source: Wired

Former Google artificial researcher Timnit Gebru has started a new research center that aims to be more diverse in its staffing than other groups studying AI and examine topics that others are unlikely to, Wired reported. The move comes a year after Gebru said she was fired by Google after a dispute over a research paper, a high-profile exit that raised questions about how open the company was to...

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