Of how she thinks about the relationship between future DAIR research and the actions of large tech companies like Microsoft or Google, Gebru said, “DAIR isn’t doing research for these companies but in the public interest.”ĭAIR researchers will be recruited from, and embedded in, communities around the world, rather than being expected to originate from, or converge in, U.S. Researchers will be encouraged to disseminate their findings in forms that are accessible to the public, including websites and different forms of data visualization, Gebru said, adding that use of some DAIR data sets may require approval to maintain the institute’s mission of encouraging ethical applications of AI. She plans to publish DAIR’s research findings in both academic journals and alternative platforms and at a slower pace than the traditional timelines of both the tech industry and academia, she said. The MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Kapor Center have provided a cumulative $3.7 million in grants, Gebru said. Google declined to comment for this story.Ī year later, DAIR has found financial support from major backers. At least two engineers resigned in protest of Gebru’s ousting. The news of the alleged firing made headlines in the tech world and beyond, and it mobilized thousands of Google employees to join a solidarity campaign in support of Gebru, who is also the co-founder of Black in AI. “If those are our values, we can’t achieve them without slowing down and without putting in more resources per project that we’re working on,” she said.
That includes recognizing and mitigating technologies’ potentials for harm from the beginning of their creation process, rather than after they’ve already caused damage to those communities, Gebru told NBC News. Part of how Gebru imagines creating such research is by moving away from the Silicon Valley ethos of “move fast and break things” - which was Facebook’s internal motto, coined by Mark Zuckerberg, until 2014 - to instead take a more deliberate approach to creating new technologies that serve marginalized communities.
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Its website describes it as “a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.” Timnit Gebru, a known advocate for diversity in AI, announced the launch of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, or DAIR. A computer scientist who said she was pushed out of her job at Google in December 2020 has marked the one-year anniversary of her ouster with a new research institute aiming to support the creation of ethical artificial intelligence.
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