Margaret Mitchell

In this course

Margaret Mitchell is a researcher known for critical work on AI ethics, fairness, and the hidden costs of large language models, particularly through her collaboration with Timnit Gebru on "Stochastic Parrots." The course readings deploy Mitchell's arguments to ground concerns about how narratives of sentient AI obscure the material exploitation and resource consumption embedded in training these systems, and to support calls for institutional scrutiny beyond tech companies themselves. Her presence in the course frames AI development not as a purely technical problem but as one requiring ethical accountability and transparency about what these systems actually require and conceal.

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