For Stochastic Parrots Day 2023, Angelina McMillan-Taylor, Timnit Gebru, and Emily M. Bender discuss their 2021 paper, 'On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?' With moderation by Margaret Mitchell.

Angelina McMillan-Major is a computational linguist working on her PhD at the University of Washington, with her dissertation focusing on collaboratively planning language datasets with language communities.

Dr. Emily M. Bender is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, the faculty director of the CLMS program and the director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory.

Dr. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute, which focuses on independent community rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

Dr. Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist and chief ethics researcher at Hugging Face, where she focuses on machine learning and ethics-informed AI development in tech.