Margaret Mitchell
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; first author of Model Cards for Model Reporting
- Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face12
Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist who works at Hugging Face as a researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist, on ML data processing, responsible AI development, and AI ethics; Mitchell's timeline dates the Hugging Face role to 2021. Mitchell previously worked at Google AI as a Staff Research Scientist, where Mitchell founded and co-led Google's Ethical AI group, and before that was a researcher at Microsoft Research focused on vision-to-language generation, including work on the Seeing AI project for blind and low-vision people. Mitchell is first author of "Model Cards for Model Reporting" (2018), which proposed short documents that accompany trained models with benchmarked evaluation and intended-use information.123
Work
Model Cards for Model Reporting (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of the 2018 paper proposing model cards: short documents released with trained machine learning models that report benchmarked evaluation across conditions and describe the contexts the models are intended for.31
Seeing AI (Microsoft)Proprietary product
Mitchell's site describes developing Seeing AI to assist blind and low-vision people, and the timeline notes its release in 2017 through Microsoft Cognitive Services.12
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