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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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The fact that a genocide of this proportion has been executed with such little media coverage & that the likes of Last Week Tonight had ZERO interest in even mentioning it a single time, regardless of how many angles I gave them, is something I will never forget.

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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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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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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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White women in the nonprofit sector are very networked, because white male billionaires wanna give them their $ to do "good." If they don't give it to their white dude friends, they'll give it to the white women doing "good."

The level of white fragility from white women in this cursed sector talking about "being attacked" & "feeling threatened" while claiming to do "justice" or "community" is nauseating. At least at tech co.s it was understood that "doing good" was just propaganda after profit

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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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The ongoing genocide in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray has killed more than 700 thousand people, and left at least 100 thousand victims of rape as a weapon of war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63291747
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/26/ethiopia-tigray-rape-survivors-stigma/

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Victims of sexual assault are currently suffering in silence, with many of them having contracted HIV and cervical cancer. Tigray has suffered one of the longest & worst sieges in modern history,
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/genocide-in-tigray/

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and the genocidal war has obliterated over 85% of its healthcare facilities.
https://addisstandard.com/news-two-year-war-leaves-86-of-tigrays-healthcare-facilities-devastated-new-report/

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I am using part of the generous Bold Prize I received from Sabrina Hersi Issa to match up to $15,000 of your donation, which would enable us to collectively raise $30,000 for the Asmlash-Grant Foundation.
https://boldprize.squarespace.com/

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This money would allow us to ship a 40-foot container full of medical supplies to Tigray, equipping 18 health facilities that serve hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom have to travel 100s of miles to access any type of healthcare facility.
https://asmlash-grant.org/

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While we cannot undo the horrors of the genocide, we can raise awareness about its consequences and lay the foundation for healing and recovery. You can see here a harrowing short documentary about starvation used as a weapon of war during the genocide.
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/109207-000-A/arte-reportage/

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Thank you to those who donated. If you had issues donating with your credit/debit card, the paypal account I used was put on hold and they just lifted the hold. I hope that didn't result in missed donations with people giving up ☹️

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But even with those issues you have donated $3300 thus far. Thank you! We're 20% there. The platform doesn't display donations through Venmo and Zelle right now and about half of the donations have been through them.

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Wait I didn't see what you've donated through Paypal. You have donated $5k thus far and we are one third of the way there!!!

timnitGebru,
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Thank you to 120 of you who donated!

We are almost 2/3rd's there. We're less than $6k away from reaching our goal.

Reminder: I'll be matching $15k of your donations. You can donate here: https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

timnitGebru,
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Update: we're only $2,000 away from our goal 🎉

Thank you to the 168 of you who donated $13k so far. $2k more and we will have $30k (with me matching your $15k) to send medical supplies to 18 healthcare facilities in Tigray.

You can donate here: https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644#/action-2

timnitGebru,
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And we are at GOAAAAAAAAAALLLLL thanks to Mary's generous ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR donation which has now gotten us to $15k. Thank you to the 188 of you who donated $15k, which is going to be matched to be $30k.

More updates soon!

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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

timnitGebru,
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So much "AI safety" when they're getting billions from Microsoft, Anthropic is getting billions from Amazon, and they're all trying to gobble up even more money from regimes like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. I don't know about you, but it certainly screams "safety" doesn't it?

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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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Its also illegal to leave the country with a shoot to kill policy at the border if you're caught. Still people would rather risk that than the alternative of staying.

timnitGebru,
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@strangetown but they’re shipping asylum seekers off to Rwanda in the UK which is so evil :(

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