Timnit Gebru
Founder and executive director of DAIR; first author of Datasheets for Datasets
- Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)1
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), which describes itself as an independent organization conducting community-rooted research. Before DAIR, Gebru served as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team at Google. Gebru is first author of Datasheets for Datasets, which proposes that every dataset be accompanied by a datasheet documenting its motivation, composition, collection process, and recommended uses, and a co-author of Model Cards for Model Reporting, which proposes short documents that accompany trained machine learning models and report their evaluation across a range of conditions.1234
Work
Datasheets for Datasets (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of the 2018 paper proposing datasheets for datasets, modeled on the datasheets that accompany electronic components.3
Model Cards for Model Reporting (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2018 paper proposing model cards, short documents that accompany trained models and report benchmarked evaluation and intended use cases.4
Earlier roles
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