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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author of forthcoming book: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria)
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The fact that they call themselves "AI Safety" and call us "AI Ethics" is very interesting to me. What makes them "safety" and what makes us "ethics"?

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. And we should add, governance.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🔇 Will you be Rightscon in Taipei? If so, say hi, I'll be attending the conference in person for the first time & will be participating in these 2 sessions 👇🏼 All of them have to do with tech facilitated genocide. Such is the time we're in.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Is Ethical AI Possible? Podcast with the always excellent @timnitgebru.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0Zye...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

But...AGI is gonna bring utopia & AI will stop climate change! "By looking at where power is being generated & the size of nearby populations, the researchers estimated the number of adverse health events that would likely be caused by AI-related air pollution." www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I think we need to be talking about TESCREAL more... Spoiler: Eugenics is back. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Join us at www.twitch.tv/dair_institute in 10 minutes for the launch of the data labelers association 👇🏼

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This is an excerpt from what I wrote in 2015 when OpenAI was announced and all y'all journalists were lauding them as the benevolent souls who were going to save us from AI. "A white tech tycoon born and raised in South Africa during apartheid,..

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

From assistant dean Hussein Rashid's letter of resignation from the Harvard Divinity School, linked in the piece: "The amount of scholarship produced at Harvard explaining why Muslims and Arabs deserve to be met with violence is astounding, but it's been in service to foreign policy objectives...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent keynote at NISO+ today by @timnitgebru.bsky.social In this moment, when you hear about Musk replacing govt employees w “AI”, it pays to know what the TESCREAL movement billionaires are after en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Join us tomorrow to learn the truth about how AI really works (hint: its people all the way down) 👇🏼

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Tomorrow!

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⏰ 18h CET/12pm EST/ 20h EAT 📺 Watch the event live: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute 💪 Learn more about DLA: datalabelers.org 💕 Donate and support the workers: donate.dair-institute.org/page/data-wo... 🌎 Explore the reports created by data workers worldwide: data-workers.org

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

We close a great week of learning & collaborating at #NISOPlus25 with Miles Conrad Awardee & keynote speaker @timnitgebru.bsky.social (introduced by Alina Ladyzhensky of @cos.io). Thank you Dr. Gebru for your timely & thought-provoking talk on ethics & the philosophy behind the development of #AI!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

TESCREAL "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" will never remember what it stands for, but sounds a bit like Tesla, so who it describes will stick! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL @xriskology.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes the best thing to do is get some popcorn and hope that Elmo and Altman continue on to destroy each other. One can always hope. www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Palantir's platforms like Foundry are at their core, surveillance technologies. Cohere's partnership with Palantir is dangerous and should not be normalized.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Shared it with all the group chats this week yes indeed firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

As in “the fox guarding the henhouse.”

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

If the creator of Roblox was at all interested in child safety, he could start with Roblox.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I'm seeing a lot of frustration directed at the people who are critiquing this announcement. I get that people want some good ML/AI news, but this isn't it. The selection of partners does not inspire confidence–like, at all. And the website boasts about "Foundation model-powered content safeguards"

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is hilarious 😂 they're helping "smaller orgs enhance safety" because this coalition is composed of the big organizations that have it down. You can't make this up.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Satire is dead. Truly.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Solomon Grundy and Joker found new anti-crime group.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Welp I guess they are going to have to shut down the website where they track my activities lol

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments