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Margaret Mitchell

Model Cards

Documentation standards for models, and refusing to stop asking

Rating

84Impact score
Technical depth90
Went first90
Openness94
Influence87
FromUSA
Era2018-present

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Model documentationAI ethicsEvaluation

Scouting report

Founded and co-led Google’s ethical AI team, and first-authored Model Cards for Model Reporting, which proposed that a released model should ship with a document stating its intended use, its evaluation data and where it performs worse. Hugging Face made model cards a default. She was fired alongside Gebru and is now chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face.

Curator’s note

Every model card on the Hub traces back to one 2019 paper.

Portrait

Painted from a photograph of Margaret Mitchell by AI4LAM, licensed CC BY 3.0.

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