{"id":146602,"date":"2026-09-30T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightlivelihood.org\/the-change-makers\/find-a-laureate\/timnit-gebru\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:11:54","slug":"timnit-gebru","status":"publish","type":"laureate","link":"https:\/\/rightlivelihood.org\/de\/the-change-makers\/find-a-laureate\/timnit-gebru\/","title":{"rendered":"Timnit Gebru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" data-block-id=\"5e838ee3-c3f3-4861-9e32-e1b7ab4e0fb7\"  class=\"haj-section haj-relative block-editor-block-list__block wp-block laureate-top-section wp-block-haj-main-section has-transparent-background-color haj-height-auto offset-menu haj-w-large haj-flex-wrap haj-flex-middle haj-height-expand haj-height-expand@m haj-height-expand@s      \">\n         <div class=\"haj-share-btns\">\n         <div className=\"haj-flex\">\n            <a 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\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-c89c5472 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:35%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/rightlivelihood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Timnit-Gebru-2026-right-livelihood-laureate-002-edited-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"2026 Right Livelihood Laureate Timnit Gebru in garden, looking off to the side.\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;width:100%;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightlivelihood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Timnit-Gebru-2026-right-livelihood-laureate-002-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, 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style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--25);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--25)\"><h4 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-small-font-size has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family\">Timnit Gebru<\/h4>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e07d7a87 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geburtsort: \u00c4thiopien<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geburtsjahr: 1983<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ausbildung: PhD in Electrical Engineering, Universit\u00e4t Stanford (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/timnitGebru\">@timnitGebru<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">Melden Sie sich gern f\u00fcr Interviewanfragen und weitere Informationen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons has-custom-font-size has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/rightlivelihood.resourcespace.com\/?c=2526&amp;k=b56f209ac3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fotos und Videos<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4218d602 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-transform:uppercase\">Awarded<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;padding-right:0\" class=\"taxonomy-the-year has-link-color is-style-default wp-elements-2 wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-text-dark-color has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rightlivelihood.org\/de\/the-year\/2026\/\" rel=\"tag\">2026<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h1 style=\"font-size:clamp(17.905px, 1.119rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.789), 28px)\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family\">Timnit Gebru<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-editorial-new-font-family has-medium-heading-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);line-height:1.3\">\u201eWeil sie die bestehende Machtkonzentration im Bereich K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz herausfordert und eine digitale Technologie vorantreibt, die auf Gerechtigkeit, gelebter Erfahrung und menschlicher Selbstbestimmung beruht.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timnit Gebru ist eine US-amerikanische Informatikerin, die zu K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz (KI) forscht. Sie ist Gr\u00fcnderin des <em>Distributed<\/em> <em>Artificial Intelligence Research Institute<\/em> (DAIR). Mit ihrer Arbeit stellt sie die Machtkonzentration im Technologiesektor infrage und zeigt auf, welche Sch\u00e4den KI-Systeme bereits heute im Alltag diskriminierter und marginalisierter Gruppen verursachen. Gebrus Forschung hat dazu beigetragen, die internationale Debatte auf elementare Fragen wie die nach Zweck, Verantwortlichkeit und Regulierung von KI-Entwicklung zu lenken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gebru wurde in \u00c4thiopien als Tochter einer eritreischen Familie geboren. Mit 15 Jahren musste sie wegen des \u00e4thiopisch-eritreischen Krieges das Land verlassen und beantragte Asyl in den USA. Eigene Diskriminierungserfahrungen pr\u00e4gten ihr Verst\u00e4ndnis, dass Wissenschaft und Technologie nicht neutral sind, sondern vielmehr Ungleichheiten abbilden und festigen k\u00f6nnen. Sie war Mitbegr\u00fcnderin von <em>Black in AI<\/em>, einer Initiative, die Sichtbarkeit Schwarzer Menschen in der KI-Forschung st\u00e4rken will. Gebru arbeitete 2018 bis 2020 f\u00fcr Google AI, wo sie ein Team f\u00fcr ethische Fragen der KI mitleitete. Infolge einer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Management \u00fcber den Umgang mit einer wegweisenden wissenschaftlichen Arbeit, die vor den Risiken gro\u00dfer Sprachmodelle warnte, wurde sie entlassen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bei DAIR verkn\u00fcpft Gebru heute die Kritik an technologischem Bias mit der Entwicklung alternativer Ans\u00e4tze. Das dezentrale Modell des Instituts bringt Forschende und Expert*innen \u00fcber L\u00e4nder und Kontinente hinweg zusammen. Damit bietet sie einen Gegenentwurf zu den zentralisierten und von Konzerninteressen gepr\u00e4gten Strukturen in der vorherrschenden KI-Entwicklung. Ihr Forschungsansatz basiert auf den Erfahrungen und Bed\u00fcrfnissen verschiedener gesellschaftlicher Gruppen. Damit erweitert Gebru den Kreis derjenigen, die mitbestimmen, wie Technologie gestaltet wird und welchen Zielen und Werten sie k\u00fcnftig dienen soll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n   <\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" data-block-id=\"401dc384-5b07-4139-a773-d0b90c8a5b2c\"  class=\"haj-section haj-relative block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-haj-main-section has-sand-background-color haj-height-auto offset-menu haj-w-large haj-flex-wrap haj-flex-middle haj-height-expand haj-height-expand@m haj-height-expand@s      \">\n   \n      \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-70c896cc wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-medium-heading-font-size\">Let&#8217;s not talk about machines like they have their own life or agency. Let&#8217;s talk about who are creating them and what their responsibilities are.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-editorial-new-font-family has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--25)\">Timnit Gebru<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n   <\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" data-block-id=\"4be9e58c-4d91-4df4-a3e5-64dd1655e928\" style=\"background-color:#bae3c8\" class=\"haj-section haj-relative block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-haj-main-section has-random-background-color haj-height-auto offset-menu haj-w-medium haj-flex-wrap haj-flex-middle haj-height-expand haj-height-expand@m haj-height-expand@s      \">\n   \n      \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center reverse-wrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f607f1e7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group text-column-stack haj-max-w-505 is-vertical is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf55f3c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family\">Biography (in English)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While AI leaders present artificial intelligence as a neutral and inevitable force, Timnit Gebru makes visible what this narrative obscures: technology can reproduce and deepen existing domination, exploitation and exclusion, while imposing growing costs on people and the planet. 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With her father as an electrical engineer and her older sisters following the same path, science offered a stable sanctuary from the world&#8217;s disorder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At age 15, the Ethiopian-Eritrean war forced her into exile, leading her through Ireland before she eventually sought asylum in the United States. A painful paradox marked this period of statelessness: being granted entry while simultaneously being made to feel unwanted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her understanding of and reliance on science evolved significantly over time. Initially facing attempts to discourage or exclude her from scientific institutions, she later uncovered the deep-seated biases embedded within technology itself. This journey culminated in her raising the alarm against a powerful minority introducing eugenic principles into the tech sector. She set out to address that imbalance and build better alternatives with communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-c77d88fb wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family has-medium-heading-font-size\">Science reproducing exclusion<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As artificial intelligence expanded rapidly in the mid-2010s, she began seeing disturbing racial biases: Google Photos labelled Black individuals as gorillas, while research showed that facial-detection systems performed poorly on Black faces. Meanwhile, Gebru would attend supposedly international AI conferences and see almost no other Black people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exclusion, she realised, was not only happening around technology. It became embedded within it, carrying the histories, assumptions and hegemonic values of the institutions that produced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI was kind of trying to escape from the world in the science,<\/em> <em>and I realised that the science itself is actually the world I was trying to escape from,\u201d Gebru said.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, Gebru co-founded Black in AI, creating a community for Black people working in the field and helping increase their presence and influence. The organisation later helped bring a major international AI conference to Africa for the first time, in Rwanda in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-c77d88fb wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family has-medium-heading-font-size\">Knowledge rooted in experience<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gebru also began questioning a technology sector increasingly captivated by artificial general intelligence (AGI) and visions of machines that would surpass humanity. In her research, she traced the underlying transhumanist ideas to the history of eugenics. She questioned who these tech-utopias are developed by and who they are developed for, and drew attention to people already being harmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her research warned about biased datasets, environmental costs and other risks associated with increasingly large language models. In 2020, while serving as co-lead of Google\u2019s Ethical AI team, she co-authored a pioneering paper on these risks. The company asked her to retract it or remove her name. She was fired after refusing to do so without certain guarantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some months later, Gebru founded DAIR as a distributed research institute. Today, it has more than 20 staff across 10 countries, including technologists, journalists and organisers, as well as people whose expertise comes directly from the harms being investigated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-c77d88fb wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family has-medium-heading-font-size\">Embracing human limits<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This community-rooted approach rejects the model in which external experts observe people, extract their data and define problems from outside. Instead, those directly affected help determine what should be investigated and how. It also challenges the idea that expertise must be concentrated in a few celebrated individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThere&#8217;s a limit to what I, as a human being, can do,&nbsp;and that&#8217;s fine, because there are many of us,\u201d Gebru said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the Data Workers\u2019 Inquiry, workers who train and moderate AI systems investigate their own labour conditions. At the same time, Surveillance Watch maps surveillance technologies and the governments, corporations and investors behind them. Both projects make visible a central argument in DAIR\u2019s work: AI does not advance autonomously. Behind apparently intelligent machines are human choices about labour, resources, data, ownership and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than distant fears about superintelligent machines, Gebru asks more immediate questions: Who builds these systems? Who pays for them? Where does the data come from? Who does the work? Who benefits and who bears the costs? If fair answers to these concrete questions are given here and now, speculative future risks will not arise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f6f9cf58 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family has-medium-heading-font-size\">When science meets responsibility<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This approach also shaped Gebru\u2019s response to the war in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, where mass killing, sexual violence, displacement and hunger devastated civilian communities from 2020. She used her platforms to publicly speak about genocide, while DAIR supported research led by survivors and journalists into social media\u2019s role in the violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research contributed evidence to litigation accusing the giant technology company Meta of failing to adequately moderate hate speech and amplifying content that incited ethnic violence in Ethiopia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exposing harm, however, is only one pillar of Gebru\u2019s work. The other is cultivating the imagination needed to envision a different technological future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f6f9cf58 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-neue-haas-grotesk-font-family has-medium-heading-font-size\">Reclaiming the future<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She challenges the power of technology companies and what she calls \u201ctech bros\u201d to present their preferred future as inevitable. 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