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timnitGebru

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social

Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace and writing about the dangers of large language models: https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.

Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/) to work on community rooted AI research.

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, the worst genocide of the 21st century, has been the single most disturbing event in my lifetime. Not only this genocide, but also seeing the ease with which so many people deny it, with so much anger towards those who have the audacity to even mention the genocide.

https://newlinesinstitute.org/rules-based-international-order/genocide-in-tigray-serious-breaches-of-international-law-in-the-tigray-conflict-ethiopia-and-paths-to-accountability-2/

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I haven't commented on the latest idiocy w.r.t. Google & their "AI summaries." But I honestly don't have anything left to say. We wrote all the papers to be written & gave all the warnings to be given.

Maybe they'll all destroy each other chasing this AGI dream of theirs🤷‍♀️

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Speaking of "AI Safety," Max Tegmark was chillin with Netanyahu & Elmo a few months ago talking about "existential risks to humanity" they collectively need to "save" us from, & dude's institute recently got ~$700M from TESCREAL crypto billionaire.

Masters of gaslighting.

And because they don't have enough money and influence, and haven't caused enough harm, people tell us to "build bridges" to them to ensure they have access to every imaginable space.

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When I worked at Google, there was a semblance of "labor laws" that they might be slightly afraid of, in theory.

In the nonprofit sector, we have white women going around naming Black & Arab women as threats to THEIR safety & I find out about it from someone they said this to.

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1954: “we have machines which, if they were for the first time discovered by animal psychologists, would be said to think in the way animals do.”

1958: machines that “will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself & be conscious of its existence.”

2024 👇

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33 years of Eritrean "independence" in a nutshell.

Journalist: When are elections going to be held in Eritrea"? They were scheduled in 2001 & didn't take place. When is it going to happen?

Isayas: What elections?

Journalist: Elections in Eritrea

Isayas: We will wait for ~3-4 decades until we see genuine natural situations

Journalist: You're saying that Eritrea is going to wait for 3-4 decades before it holds elections?

Isayas: Maybe more, maybe more, who knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAXKsZ8OsWo

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❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

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"Leike had said that OpenAI's "safety culture & processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" in recent years, and that his team struggled to obtain the resources to get their safety work done."

Lol. But there never was a "safety culture"!

The founding of OpenAI was premised on "existential risk" of AI to "humanity," the new grift white men created to siphon even more resources for themselves under the guise of saving all of us.

https://mashable.com/article/openai-sam-altman-greg-brockman-respond-to-jan-leike-resignation

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5k Eritreans estimated to flee EACH MONTH & 22% of asylum seekers arriving in Europe were Eritrean, 2nd only to Syrians even though the latter have 6x the population of Eritrea.

This is 8 years ago. Things have only gotten exponentially worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-CJ_AtCos

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Friends, I haven't read the Chuck Schumer "report" on AI. Why should I? I knew where it was headed by seeing who they invited (and when they tried to invite me as a back fill/window dressing) & the fact that he asked people what their "p(doom)" was shudder. My whole life is not centered around commenting on what all these ridiculous people are doing. For that, I've written a very detailed paper with Emile P. Torres that you can refer to. Find it and other resources at https://dair-institute.org/tescreal/.

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I’m just thinking about how some of the biggest genociders in the 20th and 21st centuries have gotten Nobel peace prizes. 🤔

I kind of see it more as a warning label at this point.

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Those of you in the US please make your voices heard. If you don't think this impacts you, best believe it will get to you one way or another.

https://action.cair.com/a/reject-targeting-nonprofits

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The vengeance by these universities is so evil. I heard that MIT suspended more than 24 students, with a bunch of them one week before graduation, so they don't know if they'll graduate. Evil.

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"University would rather continue to aid and abet in genocide" would be the appropriate title.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/sonoma-state-president-leave-gaza-00158285

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"Heavy rains and flooding in Rio Grande do Sul since last week also have left 130 people missing, authorities said. More than 230,000 have been displaced, and much of the region has been isolated by the floodwaters."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/southern-brazil-is-still-reeling-from-massive-flooding-as-it-faces-risk-from-new-storms/ar-BB1m3M62

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My deep appreciation for David Yambio and the whole @refugeesinlibya crew. What you see publicly is not even 5% of what they do. May they get the resources and support they deserve. No one should see the daily horrors they see and experience with zero care from the world.

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Does anyone remember an analysis from way back in the day that showed that the term “neural networks” was associated with the least likely papers to be accepted to NeurIPS? Like the term highly correlated with paper rejections, before everything became deeplearning?

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What these companies do to whistleblowers is too normalized.

https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/boeing-whistleblower-dead-joshua-dean-45-sudden-severe-infection/

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Seeing organizations whose leadership has been asked for simple apology and accountability from Palestinian leadership of organizations who have worked on this for decades (who they have shamelessly been dismissing), and doing everything they can to sidestep that call instead of doing the simple thing of apologizing and creating accountability structures. Interesting logic 🤔

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Like clockwork, I see a need to re-up 👇

White people stop making this (whatever this is) about you challenge 2024 (mission impossible).

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I didn't know that University of Southern California had the audacity to cancel the main ceremony and keep the satellite ones but good on my sister @safiyanoble for saying that she won't have anything to do with that.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-28/commencement-speakers-boycott-usc-satellite-ceremonies

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""What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore).""

Nothing to see here.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

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"Panel will advise Department of Homeland Security on deploying artificial intelligence safely within America’s critical infrastructure"

LOL. Ok. Because that is obviously what OpenAI has been doing, prioritizing safety, and can advise others to do the same. They will advise the government on how to guard against the devil kind of "magic intelligence in the sky" as Sam Atlman called it, while him and his friends raise the $7T required to save humanity from it.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-sam-altman-and-other-tech-leaders-to-serve-on-ai-safety-board-7dc47b78

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Free speech all over the US right now!

USC canceled their commencement ceremony because they rightfully got called out for telling the valedictorian that she won't have her commencement speech, because she said something in defense of Palestinian lives on social media. So instead of apologizing and reinstating her, they decided to just cancel commencement instead. Very logical.

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We got a quick second with & and have to live through a life time of backlash because we had a little air time.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/new-york-court-of-appeals-judges-harvey-weinstein-1235881583/

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