timnitGebru

timnitGebru, 1 year ago to random

Oh hey! I just had my first social media post to be taken down from any platform ever, on LinkedIn. Yay! My post about the flabbergasting amounts of racism in "AI" violated their "professional" community guideline. Indeed. Its quite professional to be as racist as possible, but not professional to call it out. Totally makes sense.

timnitGebru, 4 months ago to random

I can't emphasize enough my disdain for the whole AGI scam. Used to centralize & consolidate power by the already rich & powerful while selling a techno-utopia they promise will come any day now, if we just let them continue to kill the environment, exploit labor & steal data 👍

timnitGebru, 1 month ago to random

Not even 24 hrs after making history as the first company to mass fire workers for pro-Palestine protests, by summarily firing 28 people, Google announced that the “(ir)responsible AI org,” the one they created in response to firing me, is now reporting up the Israeli office, through an SVP there.

Seems like they want us to know how forcefully and clearly they are backing this genocide.

timnitGebru, 8 months ago to random

As my mom says, success brings many (fake) friends.

The added context is gold 😂

timnitGebru, 3 months ago to random

In what world is it acceptable to have a product whose behavior is not reproducible at all? You have no idea what the training data is, what the evaluation data is, y'all write papers about the system "learning" this or that, when your test set might be part of its training set. And these companies can't provide any guarantees for what the output will be for a particular input, and the ways in which it will change, if the output is different for the same input.

timnitGebru, 8 months ago to random

Wow it gets better.

“she was forced to leave Temple University for neighbouring UPenn after a dispute with her boss, who then attempted to have her deported.”

& Penn

“They issued an ultimatum, if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, & face a…pay cut.”

”…that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer…I was facing 2 operations, & my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card…got stranded…”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

timnitGebru, 10 months ago to random

An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.

They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?

What a cruel world.

Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡

timnitGebru, 5 months ago to random

"FTC says Rite Aid technology falsely tagged consumers, particularly women and people of color, as shoplifters; Ban will last five years"
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/rite-aid-banned-using-ai-facial-recognition-after-ftc-says-retailer-deployed-technology-without

timnitGebru, 10 months ago to random

We got an email from someone who was falsely accused of using ChatGPT to generate their essays.

My name is XXX I am a XXX year old XX student at XXX. I am currently being falsely accused of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) on an assignment of mine. The AI detector is used through the company "Turnitin".

I am contacting you because I am interested in discussing this subject with someone who is willing to listen.

timnitGebru, 9 months ago to random

"Three days after the article was published, someone asked Yudkowsky on social media: “How many people are allowed to die to prevent AGI?” His response was: “There should be enough survivors on Earth in close contact to form a viable reproductive population, with room to spare, and they should have a sustainable food supply. So long as that’s true, there’s still a chance of reaching the stars someday.”"

Remember that these are the bozos policy makers are talking to.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/

timnitGebru, 11 months ago to random

"“OpenAI repeatedly argued to European officials that the forthcoming AI Act should not consider its general purpose AI systems…to be “high risk,” a designation that would subject them to stringent legal requirements including transparency, traceability, and human oversight."

Oohh noooz our stuff is so strong it might render humanity extinct.

But also no no our stuff shouldn’t be classified “high risk.”

By @perrigo

https://time.com/6288245/openai-eu-lobbying-ai-act/

timnitGebru, 9 months ago to random

And another message. There was absolutely no need for this and we got the companies wanting to create an AGI god, putting these students in this awful situation. These "AI detection" tools need to be banned.

timnitGebru, 1 month ago to random

Hello friends,

I am happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres, The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday, along with a set of terrific papers by our colleagues. I suggest you read all the papers in this issue.

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599

timnitGebru, 1 year ago to random

This whole "this is how humans learn so whats the difference" thing while stealing so much data to make billions for a few dudes is so insidious.

timnitGebru, 7 months ago to random

I'm copying here a tweet by the brilliant physicist, professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein who is no longer active on Mastodon because she was immediately met with a barrage of racist and antisemetic attacks on this platform.

"Last night I helped report a Google spreadsheet that exclusively listed Black and Brown college students who had spoken up in support of Palestinian liberation. It included personal information about them as part of an effort to doxx them.

The Crimson reported on it today.

timnitGebru, 7 months ago to random

What a beautiful statement of solidarity as we're seeing a world sanctioned genocide of 1.1M people being announced, live streamed, cheered and actively supported by all powerful countries and institutions and mostly black and brown students standing against it being harassed, doxxed and threatened.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSORL3FuDTW_AmUYK3N6AgK4lmwk9M9-cHfL-TqKKg7YBzIJa1VoJ8RBIzErRPBTcShI70UsJN5vulc/pub

timnitGebru, 7 months ago to random

I think it is helpful to read other cases of genocide denial if you want to help yourself figure out what to engage with and what not to engage with. The talking points are exactly the same. All genocides work the same. It was hard to engage with friends and extended family members saying these things during #TigrayGenocide and I sure am not going to entertain that from others now.

"No we're not talking about the population its just this group we're calling animals"

timnitGebru, 1 year ago to random

So, the other "godfather" of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align himself with the #TESCREAL bundle, writing a thing about "rogue AI" and prominently citing people like Nick Bostrom.

Take a good look at this text here. This is written by non other than Nick Bostrom, prominently featured by so many of these fathers and godfathers and sons and brothers and nephews of "AI" (given that its all men you know).

timnitGebru, 8 months ago to random

Speaking of Shane Legg, co-founder & "chief AGI scientist" 🙄 of Deepmind, here is this gem he co-authored in 2007 titled "Universal Intelligence" where he wonders, as one does,

"Are men on average more intelligent than women? Are white people smarter than black people?" 🤔 Questions white men like to "ask"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0712.3329.pdf

timnitGebru, 10 months ago to random

“People don’t realize that ‘the cloud’ is real...” says Aurora Gómez, ...“People are not aware of the amount of water that goes into watching a kitten meme.”
Meanwhile Jeff Dean was mad cause our #Section3 of Stochastic Parrots talked about the environmental impacts of LLMs and not how "carbon neutral" Google was 🙄

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/extreme-heat-drought-drive-opposition-to-ai-data-centers?srnd=premium-uk

timnitGebru, 6 months ago to random

Not a single white politician signed the proposed #CeasefireNow bill.

timnitGebru, 10 months ago to random

Important reporting by Christopher Mathias. Same shit, different day. "Richard Hanania, a visiting scholar at the University of Texas, used the pen name...to write articles where he identified himself as a “race realist.” He expressed support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, who he argued were most often Black."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

timnitGebru, 2 months ago to random

The western evangelical money going into homophobic laws all over Africa isn't discussed enough.

"Who organised this summit of hate? The World Congress of Families (WCF), an elite international network led by US & Russian ultra-conservatives and best known for publicly & militantly opposing LGBT rights and abortion – though its members are also against contraception, comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), divorce, single mothers and multi-generational households."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/god-has-a-new-africa-undercover-in-a-us-led-anti-lgbt-hate-movement/

timnitGebru, 4 months ago to random

Everyone I talk to, regardless of the sector, is getting pressure from donors or what to "use AI" somehow. Maybe they think its like sprinkling a little bit of magic. Smh. It is unreal seeing all this unfold.

timnitGebru, 19 days ago to random

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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