Professor, researcher, writer, teacher. I care about #contentmoderation, #tech, #digitallabor, the state of the world. I like animals and #synthesizers and games (#ttrpg; #boardgames; #videogames). On the internet since 1993. Mac user since they came out. I like old computers and OSes. I love #cooking. Siouxsie is my queen.

Los Angeles/Tovangaar-based white settler. Gay lady.

I wrote an entire book on content moderation called Behind the Screen. Now might be an interesting time to read it.

Freelance journalist with an eye on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa as a whole. Amnesty International Prize nominee. Same handle on Bsky. Inactive on "X." Switching instances.
Contact: zechariaszelalem@gmail.com

We are an interdisciplinary AI research institute consisting of scientists, engineers, organizers and activists who believe that AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.

Our Avatar is DAIR written in black, with a white background.

Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace and writing about the dangers of large language models: https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.

Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute: https://www.dair-institute.org/.

Come to our virtual Stochastic Parrots Day event on March 17 discussing where we are w.r.t. large language models and where we want to be: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stochastic-parrots-day-tickets-524219965027

Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington

Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS)

If we don't know each other, I probably won't reply to your DM. For more, see my contacting me page: http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/contact/