Deborah Raji is a computer scientist keeping AI systems accountable. Her fellowship served as a platform to explore the frameworks and tools needed to increase AI accountability and reduce harms, including work on the Algorithmic Justice League’s bug bounty project. Deb is also the Primary Investigator on the Mozilla Open Source Audit Tooling (OAT) Project. She continues to publish seminal research into gender and racial bias in AI systems that Big Tech can’t ignore.
Renée DiResta revolutionized our understanding of how conspiracy theories spread on social media. Her fellowship focused on media, misinformation and trust, helping to illuminate that free speech is not the same as free reach. Her work has been instrumental in alerting congressional leaders to the threats and mechanisms of online peer-to-peer misinformation. Renée is currently the Research Manager at Stanford Internet Observatory and helps lead the Election Integrity Partnership.
Guillaume Chaslot is a software engineer raising awareness about the impact of algorithms. Guillaume helped to build YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, but has since been working to expose the impacts of these algorithms. His fellowship focused on exploring the impact on society and helping others understand when algorithms are working for them, and which are working against them. Guillaume is currently a Senior Scientific Expert in AI and Data Science at PERen.
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