In this profile series, we interview AI innovators on the front-lines - those who have dedicated their life’s work to improving the human condition through technology advancements. Meet Timnit Gebru, a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research.

Timnit Gebru is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining . She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founded of Black in AI, a community of black researchers working in artificial intelligence , with Rediet Abebe . Her employment with Google as technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team was abruptly ended in December 2020, after higher Google managers asked her to withdraw her name from an as-yet-unpublished paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?", which had been submitted to an external academic conference.