The MIT Technology Review @techreview summarized the research paper that Dr. Timnit Gebru @timnitGebru coauthored on ethical AI and large data sets (that Google censored, which led to them firing her). It’s worrisome on many levels. https://t.co/wm91cApokF

— Karen Catlin ? (@kecatlin) December 5, 2020

Well done and crystal clear. “We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says” – MIT Technology Review https://t.co/eCUT9JC0oH

— Safiya Umoja Noble PhD (@safiyanoble) December 5, 2020

If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of @timnitGebru publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says.

Thank you to @emilymbender who coauthored the work for sending it my way.
https://t.co/39qD59BFiI

— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) December 5, 2020

https://t.co/QCkksAgVTp uh based on the overview of this paper it sounds like its contents are really, really uncontroversial known things about AI that have been observed for a while? Not saying that as shade (there's value to synthesizing ideas!), more how was this a problem

— Ingrid Burrington (@lifewinning) December 5, 2020

Great, I’ve been waiting for exactly this. #AI #AIEthics

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says – MIT Technology Review https://t.co/KnXhvVu3hj

— Ulrike Franke (@RikeFranke) December 5, 2020

"Gebru’s draft paper points out that the sheer resources required to build and sustain such large AI models means they tend to benefit wealthy organizations, while climate change hits marginalized communities hardest. " https://t.co/365YGlB4gT pic.twitter.com/sE0z3tbVmh

— Nick Cotter (@nick_cotter) December 5, 2020

Google's decision becomes more infuriating each day. The environmental costs of AI, meaningful DE&I, and algorithmic bias are crucial issues to reckon with.

Google must stop creating a chilling effect and silencing these conversations. #IstandwithTimnithttps://t.co/ctfktkKVve

— Andrew Strait (@agstrait) December 5, 2020

"Gebru & Bender’s paper has 6 co-authors, 4 of whom are Google researchers. Bender asked to avoid disclosing their names for fear of repercussions. (Bender, by contrast, is a tenured professor: “I think this is underscoring the value of academic freedom," "https://t.co/vMRuRarjlO

— Gabriella “Biella” Coleman (@BiellaColeman) December 5, 2020

I urge you to read this important, nuanced, smart piece in @techreview by @_KarenHao about what went down last week with @timnitGebru.

The researchers' concerns are exactly what I wrote about in my book on AI's problems The Big Nine.

Short thread...https://t.co/cU36hcnUSp

— Amy Webb (@amywebb) December 5, 2020

グーグルに所属するAI倫理のスター研究者が、発表しようとした論文がグーグルの利害に反するなどの辞めされられたという騒ぎ。検索等の基礎になる大規模言語モデルのリスクなど、AI倫理的に興味深い論点が多いです。　https://t.co/wKiCWBtlq6

— 生貝直人 / Naoto Ikegai (@ikegai) December 5, 2020

For me, this is the critical problem of this whole debacle:

"Many of the top experts in AI ethics work at large tech companies because that is where the money is."https://t.co/mX1tvokGpZ

— Cathy O'Neil (@mathbabedotorg) December 5, 2020

Corps issued anti-Black racism statements. Then??

“More than 1,200 @Google workers condemn firing of #AI scientist Timnit Gebru.

More than 1,500 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias” https://t.co/vTYLQ0TVxg

— Dr. Malinda S. Smith (@MalindaSmith) December 5, 2020

More than 1,200 Google employees & more than 1,500 academic researchers speak out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence said she was fired by Google after the company attempted to suppress her research https://t.co/I1b5PIchDE

— Sushant Singh (@SushantSin) December 5, 2020

This is a really important case with Google suppressing research on bias in AI
@S_Amani @NetworkShuri https://t.co/49DqouzJoy

— roger kline (@rogerkline) December 5, 2020

Getting diversity issues underlying AI matters for how the world is perceived. This news is worrying for us all https://t.co/WdSzkQcWQF

— Athene Donald (@AtheneDonald) December 5, 2020

More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru.#womenintech #EthicalAIhttps://t.co/r0HkpzcIDc

— Gráinne Shannon (@grainne_online) December 5, 2020

More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru | Google | The Guardian ⁦@wmnjoya⁩ ⁦@m_ogada⁩ this story has parallels to what you’ve discussed on your blog. Racism. https://t.co/POeXMg0cje

— tk12 (@tboyo4) December 5, 2020

More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru | Via Guardian https://t.co/YJAHTn431G

— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) December 5, 2020

AI倫理を研究している著名な黒人科学者が、会社の製品にとって不都合な研究結果をジャーナルに投稿した結果、Googleから解雇されたと述べ、同社を批判したことを受けて、1200人以上のGoogle社員と1500人以上の学術研究者が抗議の声を上げている。https://t.co/1nzqI0MjHq

— Axion | デジタル経済メディア (@axion_zone) December 5, 2020

? #TechnologyIsNotNeutral !!!

More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru https://t.co/xhsJ3oomee

— Nadine Zubair ندین (@NadineZubair) December 5, 2020

"Research integrity can no longer be taken for granted in Google’s corporate research environment". No longer? Surely only the most utterly naive would think that it could ever have been.https://t.co/QA4AcVXouR

— Hugh McCabe (@hughmacabre) December 5, 2020

Top artificial intelligence ethics researcher says Google fired her - New York Post

Read more here: https://t.co/px2PEdC6kw#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DataScience #MachineLearning #BigData #DeepLearning #NLP #Robots #IoT

— Iain Brown, PhD (@IainLJBrown) December 4, 2020

Top artificial intelligence ethics researcher says Google fired her https://t.co/OjpCvnTLLm pic.twitter.com/UE4ridFms2

— New York Post (@nypost) December 4, 2020

Google widely criticized after parting ways with a leading voice in AI ethics || Via CNN https://t.co/4yf41ImpeY

— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) December 5, 2020

Google widely criticized after parting ways with a leading voice in AI ethics | Via CNN https://t.co/4yf41ImpeY

— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) December 5, 2020

[#AIEthics] @google missed the opportunity to be an example on ethical R&D, showing the deep biases that their leaders are not aware of (if they are aware, the "no evil" concept would be just a lie, so I am giving them the benefit of the doubt).
1/https://t.co/X68NwRofyH

— Ricardo Baeza-Yates (@PolarBearby) December 5, 2020

Here’s what Timnit Gebru’s paper said that Google didn’t want out in public. https://t.co/UixhoQIGrE

— Anarcho-Pansexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) December 5, 2020

Very interesting. RT https://t.co/JqmicCmd4G

— Ken Mogi (@kenmogi) December 6, 2020

“Inconvenient truths: energy consumption and carbon footprint have been exploding. “We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says – MIT Technology Review https://t.co/kheoixqgax

— marleenstikker (@marleenstikker) December 5, 2020

Flagging massive carbon emissions, problematic language in huge training data trawls, opportunity costs, and the potential for deceptive uses. Hard to take seriously Google's claim that this paper was spiked because it failed to meet internal standards. https://t.co/c2Q7Q1Wmo7

— Nicholas Dawes (@NicDawes) December 5, 2020

The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business.

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says https://t.co/jndm7awK4q

— Tech Bro (@OdunEweniyi) December 6, 2020

From "don't do evil"
to "occasionally do good"https://t.co/QYRb3W73tP

— Stefano Quintarelli (@quinta) December 5, 2020

This is super fascinating and makes a lot of sense about the risks--ecological &cultural of--AI. I also feel like Google would know these risks if they read their Octavia Butler. Finally, this seems prescient given the astrological momenthttps://t.co/5krZQoVlOr

— Kaitlyn Greenidge (@surlybassey) December 5, 2020

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says – MIT Technology Review https://t.co/2s55k2zzGE

— Edem Kumodzi ???? (@edemkumodzi) December 6, 2020

VERY troubling that Google's AI Ethics co-lead, Timnit Gebru, known for her work on AI and race (an interview guest when I was at @robinthede's show) has been forced out for raising the alarm on large language models! Read a summary of that research here: https://t.co/HCFsEK8ZIw

— so....what now? (@Muna_Mire) December 5, 2020

According to this analysis, the paper that forced @timnitGebru out of Google, is extremely important exposing one of the biggest problems with current approaches to #AI: the dependency on huge and increasingly huger amounts of data.#responsibleAI #ethicshttps://t.co/0GIdxI9Wcv

— Virginia Dignum (@vdignum) December 5, 2020

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says https://t.co/GiZ340aILe

— Oleg Urminsky (@OlegUrminsky) December 5, 2020

This is walking your talk; this is how you follow through in the face of power.

"You’re not going to have papers that make the company happy all the time and don’t point out problems. That’s antithetical to what it means to be that kind of researcher.” https://t.co/8y5Tg0lWbo

— Julian Oliver (@julian0liver) December 5, 2020

More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru || Via Guardian https://t.co/YJAHTn431G

— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) December 5, 2020

Deeply concerned by & join condemnation of @timnitGebru's termination from @Google https://t.co/ttxCigGg6r Substance of her paper https://t.co/gwnME7LlmG flags profound issues with #AI & #ML which can't be easily fixed, and risk the increase of #disinformation & #misinformation.

— ICT4Peace Foundation (@ict4peace) December 5, 2020

Again #Google demonstrates the difference between being good at #VirtueSignalling and actually being good and virtuous. Honestly Google has been allowed to grow so big and indispensable that it may be too big to punish! #TimnitGebru #ethics #AI #diversity https://t.co/61F7Nsm1Dp

— Stanley Q Woodvine (@sqwabb) December 4, 2020

“1,200 #Google employees & more than 1,500 academic researchers r speaking out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of A.I. said she was fired...2 suppress her research & she bc criticized its diversity efforts” #TimnitGebru https://t.co/4LL2IP2iDI

— Todd B. #DefundThePolice (@ToddBohannon) December 4, 2020

More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist @timnitGebru | @juliacarriewhttps://t.co/Dl6n2G54yG#WomenInSTEM #womenintech#EDI#BlackInTheIvory#FacialRecognition #BlackInAI

ICYMI @MalindaSmith @Diversity_Blog @ImogenRCoePhD @LaurierWinS @AMCELL @jetkerr

— Dawn “? waiting for a ventilation Bitmoji” Bazely (@dawnbazely) December 5, 2020

Please keep on signing the letter! https://t.co/ayO8RDhk4G

— NICK COULDRY (@couldrynick) December 5, 2020