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   Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 01:38:39 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

   Dear computer vision researchers, students and practitioners 🔇 🔇🔇

   Remi Denton and I have written what I consider to be a pretty comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date, from different angles, and how people have proposed addressing them, from many angles.

   As we say in the introduction, this isn’t a paper from the lens of fairness in machine learning, although we touch on those works a little bit.

   ▶️ Link for PDF: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmxvk/revamp/79776912203edccc44f84d26abed846b9b23cb06.pdf

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 01:39:01 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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     We discuss the many ways in which people, ranging from journalists to civil society to all sorts of disciplines outside of computer vision, have uncovered various harms that arise from it, and proposed many mitigation strategies. We cover everything from research from those within computer vision to the labor movement.

     Believe it or not, I signed up to do this either when I was still at Google or right after I was fired. Started working on it with Remi who was in our team at the time.

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 01:39:20 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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     We got it done like 3 years later, after writing a paper which I feel like is the length of a short book at this point.

     I hope you find it helpful in your undergraduate/graduate student teachings. The paper is geared towards people within the computer vision discipline, but hopefully people who aren’t in the discipline can find it useful too.

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     dust (sifr@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 05:08:58 JST dust

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     @timnitGebru "6.2 Refusal/The Right not to Build Something" this! this! this! 👏 thank you

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 11:15:44 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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     • Kate Nyhan

     @kdnyhan oh whoa that’s a very short time. Honored!

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     Kate Nyhan (kdnyhan@social.esmarconf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 11:15:45 JST Kate Nyhan

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     @timnitGebru
     About three hours elapsed between your post and my first opportunity to recommend the paper to a library user to whom it's very relevant :)