Timnit Gebru—Co-authored influential 'Stochastic Parrots' paper warning of large language model risks
Timnit Gebru co-authored 'On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?' with Emily Bender, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell. Published at FAccT 2021, the paper warned about environmental costs, encoded biases, and limitations of large language models. It has been cited over 8,000 times and 'stochastic parrot' was named 2023 AI-related Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Safety | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Human-Centered AI | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.885 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
Confirms Statement Mar 1, 2021 verified
Stochastic Parrots paper published at FAccT 2021 with 8,000+ citations
The paper 'On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots' was published at ACM FAccT 2021 and has been cited over 8,000 times.