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.
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.
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.
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.
@timnitGebru This is amazing; seeing all the citations and the history of the eugenics movement(s) laid out… also, it’s a really, really clear read, which my ADHD really appreciates and hopefully will help it spread far and wide to those who aren’t aware or in tech/CS/ML!
@timnitGebru I have a deep respect for you and everyone at DAIR. The work you all do is incredibly inspiring and necessary, and even causes me to feel hopeful about things. I can’t wait to, bluntly, link as many people as I can to this paper.
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