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'Alternative Nobel' honors women's rights activists, AI researcher

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DW English
“Alternative Nobel' honors women's rights activists, AI researcher”

The Right Livelihood Award has gone to a female AI researcher and women fighting repression. The Sweden-based prize has been dubbed an "alternative Nobel."

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France 24 English
“Ethiopian AI expert, Timnit Gebru, wins 'alternative Nobel”

In tonight's edition, Africa's richest man breaks ground on a 16 billion dollar oil refinery in Kenya. Also, at universities across Cameroon, programming is overshadowed with uncertainty amidst an indefinite strike by lecturers. And I speak to Ethiopian-born computer scientist and pioneering AI ethicist Timnit Gebru as she is honored with the Swedish Right Livelihood Award for her work on how AI is influenced by biases.

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