Margaret Mitchell is the Chief Ethics Scientist & Researcher at Hugging Face – a machine learning platform that facilitates collaboration amongst machine learning community. Margaret has spearheaded several initiatives that cater to ethical AI practices at leading tech companies such as Microsoft and Google. Margaret’s mission is to advance AI that is informed by human values. When hired to speak at events, Margaret shares her expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning and ethics in AI.
With educational qualifications in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington and Reed College, Margaret worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Spoken Language Understanding. She then received her PhD from the University of Aberdeen and soon after joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University. Margaret has worked as a Researcher for Microsoft where she worked Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence research. In her time at Microsoft, she served as the Research Lead for the Seeing AI product, which was awarded the Helen Keller Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind in 2018.
Margaret’s work is focused on machine learning research and AI ethics operationalisation, often converging principles of ML, social science, law and policy. Serving as a Senior Research Scientist at Google, Margaret was instrumental in defining and operationalising AI practices that were aligned with human values across Google. She was also the Research Lead for the Google Cloud Model Cards product which was recognised with the US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter’s Tech Spotlight Award – a matter of great pride.
A prolific speaker, Margaret delivered the TED talk “How We Can Build AI to Help Humans, Not Hurt Us” in 2018, where she asks people to be cognizant of the ramifications of the inventions made in the technology industry and in AI. Margaret has also been invited to deliver the keynote address at the Montreal AI Symposium in 2018. Keen on ensuring that more women succeed in tech, Margaret also organised the first workshop for women and underrepresented minorities at ACL. Margaret Mitchell is now available to hire for a wide range of events, where she speaks on topics related to AI ethics, machine learning and how to evolve artificial intelligence towards positive goals.
