Margaret Mitchell
Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; lead author of Model Cards
Margaret Mitchell co-founded and co-led Google's Ethical AI team and was the lead author of Model Cards for Model Reporting, the short standard document that now ships with many released models. She is Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face.
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Machine Learning Experts — Margaret Mitchell
How an ethics team actually works inside a company, and where bias enters through the data.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues every released model should ship with plain documentation of its intended use, its evaluation data and where it performs worse.
- Holds that ethics work needs to sit inside engineering practice, not alongside it as review-after-the-fact.
- Has spoken publicly about the cost to researchers of raising these issues from inside a company.
Accomplishments
- Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face.
- Co-founded and co-led Google's Ethical AI research team.
- Lead author of "Model Cards for Model Reporting" (2019), now standard practice on major model hubs.
Papers & key writings
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