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Shmargaret Shmitchell

AI ethics researchers documenting bias in large language models and harms of opaque training data.

Why this matters

Their Stochastic Parrots paper names when interpretation at scale reproduces inequality and erases accountability.

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On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" *Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)*, 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922.

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