timnitGebru dair-community.socialbsky.social is an AI ethics researcher who founded the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) and serves as its executive director. timnitGebru dair-community.socialbsky.social's Twitter Score is 43 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #21,401 (top 5%) among 485,188 tracked accounts.
timnitGebru dair-community.socialbsky.social co-founded Black in AI and previously led the Ethical AI research team at Google as co-lead before a disputed departure in December 2020. DAIR states she was fired for raising discrimination concerns; Google maintained she resigned. The exit followed a conflict over a research paper examining the risks of large language models.
timnitGebru dair-community.socialbsky.social previously worked at the Microsoft Research FATE group as a postdoctoral researcher. Her academic contributions include co-authoring the Gender Shades paper, which documented intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification systems, and the Datasheets for Datasets paper, which proposed standardized documentation practices for machine-learning datasets. She is also on the board of AddisCoder.
timnitGebru dair-community.socialbsky.social founded DAIR, which was initially a project of nonprofit Code for Science and Society and planned to incorporate as a nonprofit. The institute has received grants totaling more than $3 million from the Ford, MacArthur, Rockefeller, and Open Society foundations, as well as the Kapor Center. timnitGebru dair-community.socialbsky.social has 170,485 followers as of August 2026 and has published 44,467 posts, and has been mentioned by 150 accounts a total of 402 times.
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