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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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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.

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Solidarity with these workers. https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-from-google-workers-with-the-no-tech-for-apartheid-campaign-on-googles-indiscriminate-28ba4c9b7ce8

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Job opening at @datasociety "Researcher - Labor, Race, and Tech Project, Labor Futures Initiative"

Apply by April 30
https://boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyresearchinstitute/jobs/7304993002

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Read this by Anika Collier Navaroli

"In early 2022 I was wracked with guilt. I had been speaking with the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack about my former role as a senior policy official at Twitter. I recounted my warnings that went unheeded that violence was going to occur on January 6."

https://thesignalsnetwork.org/whistleblower-john-barnetts-life-and-death-highlight-the-impact-of-whistleblowing-on-mental-health/

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I see that the “Future of Humanity Institute” is closing down (someone forwarded me a tweet by an account that has blocked me). Good riddance but don’t celebrate just yet because TESCREALists are only amassing more power, now matter how many of them are exposed or, like, perpetuate the biggest frauds in US history, or how much of the blatantly racist eugenicists they are is exposed.

Turns out white men just fail up.

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So NIST appoints straight up TESCREAL doomer Paul Christiano as "AI safety head" of the "US AI Safety Institute"???? Wonderful news!

Endnote from our paper: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599

102...see also the TESCREAList Paul Christiano’s estimate that the “probability that humanity has somehow irreversibly messed up our future within 10 years of building powerful AI [is] 46%,” at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xWMqsvHapP3nwdSW8/my-views-on-doom, accessed 31 January 2024.

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Whats better, that he wrote a blog on a cult forum, or that he just pulled random numbers out of his behind for this apocalyptic prediction?

As they say, why not both.

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We should not settle for the means justify the ends type of explanation when we ask why alternatives supposed to save us from BigTech, profit or nonprofit, are almost exclusively filled with white execs & give generational wealth to ~exclusively white ppl. The means DON’T justify the ends.

I’ve been thinking about the extent to which this happens when a friend brought this up & pointed to some things I didn’t know.

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No I’m not talking about OpenAI this time. There are plenty in tech accountability spaces & orgs presenting themselves as alternatives.

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Lol the ends don’t justify the means is what I wanted to say but you know what I mean. The means ARE part of the ends.

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Maybe one day an article like this would be written about a company that collaborates with local artists and writers to produce these books, and a home grown machine translation company, rather than Chat GPT and Google Translate 🤔

I think of the children's stories I heard growing up in Ethiopia, & how specific they were to the context. And when my elders tell me stories about various villages in Eritrea, they are super super specific. Why not preserve that & pass it on?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/13/mali-books-artificial-intelligence-ai/

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My 2 cents? We should empower local artists and writers and story tellers and build tools to do that, rather than using technology built on stolen artists' work and exploited labor right from the continent.

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Like the kind of work by @TeHiku which you can read about on @karenhao's AI colonialism series.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/22/1050394/artificial-intelligence-for-the-people/

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I don't think Te Hiku Media is on Mastodon but @keoni is and you should follow him.

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Via @tomstoneham

"All this seems to be based on an article of faith; namely, that all that is needed to create superintelligent machines is (a) infinitely more data and (b) infinitely more computing power. And the strange thing is that at the moment the world seems to be taking these fantasies at face value."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/from-boom-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-is-only-heading-in-one-direction"

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"Since nobody is making real money yet from AI except those that build the hardware, there are precious few profits to take, save perhaps for those who own shares in Nvidia or Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft & Alphabet...This generative AI turns out to be great at spending money, but not at producing returns on investment."

Reminds me of my conversation with Malcolm Harris where he talked about how the people who made $ during the "gold rush" were those selling supplies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLtwiP0uoo

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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

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We have also created a webpage assembling a number of resources on the TESCREAL bundle: https://www.dair-institute.org/tescreal/, including my talk covering parts of this paper, a number of Emile’s articles, some other articles on, e.g., eugenics and statistics. We will probably add to this page as we find new articles on the topic.

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I hope you find the paper to be informative. On my end, I will never read this paper again lol. I got so tired of editing at some point, that it was clear that I wasn’t going to find any of the issues.

We have a lot of people to thank. First and foremost, the editors, Jenna & Jake, gave us the opportunity to be part of this issue & revise the paper to make sure the paper is published in its best possible form. We also had many colleagues who reviewed the paper and gave us important feedback.

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Thank you to Alexander Thomas, Beth Singler, Douglas Rushkoff, Emily M. Bender, Katherine Heller, Keira Havens, Remmelt Ellen, Samy Bengio, Syed Mustafa Ali, Nicholas Rodelo, and the anonymous reviewers for First Monday and FAccT for reviewing drafts of this paper and providing thorough feedback that has allowed us to make it stronger.

And thank you also to Edward J. Valauskas for patiently incorporating all our copy edits.

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@inquiline Thank you!

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@aud Thank you so much!

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I was so disappointed to see an episode of Abbot Elementary which assumed that tools purporting to detect "AI" generated text work 100%, given the number of students wrongfully accused of using ChatGPT because of these tools.

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Good thing they got rid of "don't be evil" am I right?

https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/

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""Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense, according to the document, has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to Google-provided computing infrastructure, which would allow the ministry to store and process data, and access AI services.""

Of course.

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