“The most pressing problem is the diversity and inclusion of who's at the table from the start. All the other issues fall out from there.”
Why Margaret is the canonical The Working Researcher
A research scientist who founded and led Google's Ethical AI team and is now Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face, Mitchell has published ~100 papers on bias, fairness, and model documentation. She is a canonical employed researcher shaping how AI is built responsibly.
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