Margaret Mitchell

In this course

Margaret Mitchell is a researcher in AI ethics and accountability who co-authored the influential "Stochastic Parrots" paper critiquing large language models' environmental and social costs. Her work with Timnit Gebru interrogates how AI systems obscure labor exploitation and resource consumption behind claims of machine sentience, directly challenging the framing of AI as autonomous agents rather than sociotechnical systems requiring human oversight. In this course, Mitchell anchors arguments about the material and ethical infrastructure hidden beneath AI systems, grounding discussions of "pandaemonium" in concrete critiques of industry practice and regulatory gaps.

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