Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru

Founder and Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR)

Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR)

Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising
issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI
research team. She received her PhD from Stanford University, and did a postdoc at
Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and
Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying
projects aiming to gain insights from data. Timnit also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that
works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of
AI, and is on the board of AddisCoder, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and
computer programming to Ethiopian highschool students, free of charge.