Ethiopian AI expert, Timnit Gebru, wins 'alternative Nobel'
In tonight's edition, Africa's richest man breaks ground on a 16 billion dollar oil refinery in Kenya. Also, at universities across Cameroon, programming is overshadowed with uncertainty amidst an indefinite strike by lecturers. And I speak to Ethiopian-born computer scientist and pioneering AI ethicist Timnit Gebru as she is honored with the Swedish Right Livelihood Award for her work on how AI is influenced by biases.
Where: Kenya, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Tennessee, France, Ukraine, Russia
Exact coordinates
kenya: -0.020, 37.910
israel: 31.050, 34.850
iran: 32.430, 53.690
iraq: 33.220, 43.680
tennessee: 35.520, -86.580
france: 46.230, 2.210
ukraine: 48.380, 31.170
russia: 61.520, 105.320
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