AI has a Big Tech problem

A handful of companies dominates not only how artificial intelligence is developed but critiqued. It's time for that to change. Timnit Gebru--a giant in the world of AI and then co-leader of Google's AI ethics team-- was pushed out of her job in December. Gebru had been fighting Google over a research paper – that she had co-authored, which explored the risks of the AI models the search giant uses to power its core products, including almost every English query on Google. The paper highlighted the potential biases (racial, gender, and others)) of these language models, as well as the outsize carbon emissions required to compute them.Google wanted the paper retracted; Gebru refused.