Researcher · Founder
Timnit Gebru
Distributed AI Research InstituteFounder & Executive Director
Born 1983
Gebru is a leading AI-ethics researcher—co-author of "Gender Shades," which exposed bias in face recognition, and "Stochastic Parrots." After a high-profile departure from Google she founded the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).
Career & education
Current roleDistributed AI Research InstituteAug 2021-presentFounder & Executive Director
Distributed AI Research InstituteAug 2021-presentPreviously
Google2018-2020Co-lead of Ethical AI Research Team
Microsoft Research2017-2018Postdoc
Apple2005-2007Audio Systems Engineer
Google2018-2020Microsoft Research2017-2018Apple2005-2007Education
Stanford UniversityWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations52,386As of Oct 25, '26
citations+10,092Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜
Examined the environmental costs, biases and risks of misleading fluency in large language models.
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