Can the presence of a robot affect whether humans behave ethically?
A series of studies at Cornell investigate how humans behave in the company of robots. The article highlights its findings.
A series of studies at Cornell investigate how humans behave in the company of robots. The article highlights its findings.
The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.
Following a dispute over several emails and a research paper on Wednesday, AI ethics pioneer and research scientist Timnit Gebru no longer works at Google.
Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against them.
Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, has voiced exasperation over the company's response to efforts to increase minority hiring.
Timnit Gebru says a manager asked her to either retract or remove her name from a research paper she had coauthored, because an internal review had found the contents objectionable. The contents were about bias in AI.
Timnit Gebru, a co-leader of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, said she was fired for sending an email that management deemed “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.”
Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her. The technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team claims managers were upset about an email she’d sent to colleagues.
More than a dozen companies offer artificial-intelligence programs that promise to identify a person’s race, but researchers and even some vendors worry it will fuel discrimination
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.