Q&A with Hugging Face Chief Ethics Scientist Margaret Mitchell on aligning AI development with human needs, the “illusion of consensus” around AGI, and more
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times : Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : AI Ethics Pioneer Calls Artificial General Intelligence ‘Just Vibes and Snake Oil’
An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields
There was one about using BERT to unredact the Mueller report, which is a terrible idea. It seemed like there was just a never-ending supply … Bluesky: @markriedl , @coocho , @melaniemitchell , and @...
Q&A with Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, on the SHADES dataset, designed to test AI models for bias in languages beyond English
Now that's an opening. — www.wired.com/story/ai-bia... Reece / @thiccreese : It's not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. — My latest for @wired...
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create
I hope Karya's team keep the balance as they grow in the business world! — https://time.com/... #aiethics #aifairness — [images] Bluesky: Margaret Mitchell / @mmitchell.bsky.social : Really beaut...
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create
In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village … Mastodon: @OmaymaS@dair-community.social . Bluesky: @mmitchel...
Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about AI going rogue and those illuminating actual harms is ahistorical and obscures important research
In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot … Bluesky: @abeba.bsky.social , @mmitchell.bsky.social , and @emilymben...
After being fired as co-head of Google's Ethical AI group, Margaret Mitchell will join Hugging Face, an AI startup that aims to make algorithms fair
Dina Bass / Bloomberg : Tweets: @dinabass , @mmitchell_ai , and @timnitgebru Tweets: Dina Bass / @dinabass : Former Google Co-head of Ethical AI Research Margaret Mitchell will join @huggingface to w...
An inside look at how Google's Ethical AI team fell apart following the contentious departure of Timnit Gebru and then Margaret Mitchell
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
At I/O, Google made AI systems a centerpiece but failed to address concerns over its handling of research about the dangers of AI, which has led to firing staff
James Vincent / The Verge : Tweets: @davewsmart , @funnymonkey , and @emilymbender Tweets: Dave Smart / @davewsmart : Google named it MUM because they want to get flowers & a card one Sunday every ye...
Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations
Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.