Democracy Now! (13 August 2026). "'Deep Unlearning': Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias"
https://www.youtube.com/embed/aCB-NQtsKrs
Synopsis: "We speak with Timnit Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, about how artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases and inequality. Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, a group of academics, activists and engineers who produce research rooted in the belief that technology should benefit everyone. She also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the inclusion and visibility of Black people in the field of AI. Gebru previously served as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team at Google but was fired in 2020 for writing a paper that warned about the financial and environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism. The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, 'represents hegemonic views,' says Gebru. 'We even know articles like Wikipedia are heavily biased. It’s overwhelmingly Western and male'" (Amy Goodman, & Shaikh, N., 2026, August 13). Further: Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR) Institute https://dair-institute.org/team/ Bibliography: Amy Goodman, & Shaikh, N. (2026, August 13). "‘Deep unlearning’: Timnit Gebru on AI hype, ethics & algorithmic racial bias". Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/13/timnit_gebru Gebru, T. (2027). 'Deep Unlearning : The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist'. Atria/One Signal Publishers. https://search.worldcat.org/title/1603203803 Rastogi, A. (2024). 'AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: Can they be fixed?' Nature, 627. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00674-9 Yin, L., Alba, D., & Nicoletti, L. (2024, March 8). "OpenAI’s GPT is a recruiter’s dream tool. Tests show there’s racial bias". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-openai-gpt-hiring-racial-discrimination/
