“From precocious child to teenage refugee to unflinching AI leader, Timnit Gebru tells her story unvarnished for the first time. What makes Gebru so remarkable is her fearlessness in the face of power and her tirelessness in asking ‘if not me, then who?’ in fighting for the powerless. It has made her one of the boldest thinkers and doers of this era, forging new futures where AI is no longer a synonym for extraction but a technology of hope.” -- Karen Hao, bestselling author of Empire of AI

"From Stanford to Apple to Google, Gebru demystifies the tech industry in this engrossing memoir."
—Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of Palo Alto

“The epic story of one of our fiercest AI bullshit detectors and truth-tellers. Page after page brims with razor-sharp insight, biting humor, and a righteous impatience with the godlike hubris of gatekeepers, tech makers, and intelligence hustlers who fancy themselves prophets of our collective future. Gebru refuses the detached posture of the analyst who treats injustice as if it were merely an intellectual puzzle. She names names. Deep Unlearning is an invitation to shed the myths we have been handed about technology, intelligence, merit, and progress, and to recover the courage to tell the truth about the worlds we are building. It is a summons to live our values, ten toes down.”
—Ruha Benjamin, bestsellingauthor of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want and Imagination: A Manifesto

“A beautiful and affecting book. Whether I was laughing or crying — and I did both — I could not put it down. Gebru’s immense intellect, deep compassion, and wicked sense of humor comes through on the page as she both illuminates what science is and imagines what it could be.”
—Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, theoretical physicist and bestselling author of The Disordered Cosmos

“Gebru vulnerably and generously shares her experiences, from childhood onwards, as a curiosity-driven scientist initially fighting to be included and then eventually fundamentally challenging the structures of tech spaces, across academia and industry. Where western, ‘enlightened’ hegemony holds up only those who haven't been marginalized (or can hide it if they have) as most able to access truth about the world, Gebru powerfully shows us that science and technology grounded in community and lived experience are what brings hope for a future in which we can all flourish.”
—Emily M. Bender, coauthor of The AI Con
 
“Gebru's journey from tinkerer to thinker, from circuit maker to circuit breaker illuminates a path for those of us who want to think otherwise, to futures grounded in ancestral knowledge and empowered by new technology. Her story helps us envision a digital world that serves those who need it most, instead of the privileged few.”
—Alex Hanna, coauthor of The AI Con