News Summary

• On safeguarding independent research in the age of big tech.
• Timnit Gebru is a computer scientist, an engineer, and founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute.
• She is also co-founder of Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of artificial intelligence.
• Her advice for an early-career scientist: Question everything, question the source of information that you get, and follow all the rabbit holes.