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Fei-Fei Li is one of Stanford University ’ s most influential tech and AI professors .

Not only is she the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the university ’ s Computer Science Department , but she is also Co-Director of Stanford ’ s Human-Centred AI Institute , and previously served as the Director of its world-renowned AI Lab .

She is also the Co-Founder and Chairperson of AI4ALL , a non-profit organisation that works to achieve greater DE & I across AI education . Timnit Gebru is one of the most impactful advocates of AI DE & I . She is the Co-Founder of the Black in AI initiative , the Founder of The Distributed AI Research Institute , and was recently named by Time as one of its 100 most influential people in the world .

Gebru is also known as the Former Co-Lead of Google ’ s Ethical AI team , with a key part of her role being to ensure that Google ’ s AI products did not hold racial bias . However , following the publication of her paper that challenged the ethics of AI language models at large – and criticised Google ’ s approach to this complicated matter – she left the position in 2020 , after two years .

124 April 2023