A new article in Brookings recognizes multiple TPL affiliates as women making contributions to the field of AI.

“Recognizing the (un)hidden figures in AI” lifts up the work women do that often goes unnoticed. The publication’s inaugural list identified multiple women through a review of their public accomplishments, selected for their prominence outside the industry, and validated by others in the field. They created three groups of contributions: AI Liberators, AI Griots, and AI Policy Influencers.

Both Co-Director Aylin Caliskan and Faculty Associate Emily Bender were recognized as AI Griots, who “carry on the tradition of storytelling by leveraging their research and policy expertise to create narratives of AI use along a continuum of use cases, including AI use by global majority countries or the linguistic nuances in large language models (LLMs).”

The profile highlighted Caliskan’s research around bias and language models, and Bender’s work advocating for responsibility in the industry and analyzing AI bias and limitations.

Also recognized in the article were two women who the Lab has welcomed in Distinguished Lectures: Latanya Sweeney and Alondra Nelson. Both have pivotal roles in the shaping of policy in the AI space.

The article notes, “The women being recognized … are essential to ensuring AI thrives without disregarding humanity or the fundamental civil and human rights it upholds.”

Read the full article here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/recognizing-the-unhidden-figures-in-ai/