Timnit Gebru

See you have great judgement. Me on the other hand, I wish I had asked more questions before participating.

No Black graduate students means no Black professors and the cycle continues.

Each time I see it happening to current students, I get triggered thinking about my own story. All the work I put in to try and make it better for the next generation, and it's so depressing to see that it's not getting better. It's getting worse.

No one will say that to you of course. They just place hurdle after hurdle for you instead.

I think back to my own experience and what it took for me not to drop out literally six months before graduation. What I put my body through. What I went through.

Either that or fight for them not to get pushed out. You can count how many of us there are with one hand, in the departments I've been in. And still, that's too many for them. That's how few Black people they want. Anything more than zero is too much 😡

Honestly I'm so fed up that I'm trying to figure out if DAIR can create a university of some sort, seriously. Because it's the state of affairs is so depressing.

Almost every one of us have been through that. I've had to convince a majority of Black PhD students in my disciplines not to drop out.

If we're not in academia to create safe spaces, Black graduate students get pushed out. If they, by some miracle, finish their PhDs despite the hurdles, it's accompanied by trauma and health issues.

SCOOP: Anthropic was among the AI companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete in a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to produce technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming, acc to people familiar w/ matter.

And everyone is running around praising them for being "ethical"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I just saw the preview for this at a movie theater and couldn't help sotto voce yelling at the screen in disgust. See info in the comments about an alternative AI doc, Ghosts in the Machine (notaidoc.com).

[Also: highly, highly recommend The Secret Agent.]

Photo of Timnit Gebru Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social «If I hated OpenAI more than Google, I hate Anthropic more than OpenAI»

Anthropic no es mejor que OpenAI. Son dos caras de la misma moneda criminal de la IAG, que comparten dinámicas de robo, extractivismo, explotación, manipulación, desinformación, control y potencial armamentístico

Lean a @timnitgebru.bsky.social del @dairinstitute.bsky.social que de esto SABE mucho!

Absolutely too busy to lead something for this, but this call for papers looks great...

> CfP: Topical Collection on AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation and Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices

The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Kill People Without Checks. Is Anthropic Really Pushing Back? Anthropic’s rupture with the Pentagon has sparked public backlash and soaring support. But an AI ethics expert warns against 'falling for the theatrics.'

I wrote about Anthropic, OpenAi and the Pentagon, quoting a post by @timnitgebru.bsky.social who encouraged people not to “fall for the theatrics.”

Addis, only in the early days of Derg though. They stopped after a few years. Asmara was probably purely reserved for bombing rather than doing this kind of thing.

I'm left in the US right left dichotomy but then I hate that dichotomy and this segment that I describe from the left so who knows what label I should apply to myself.

As an Afghan, this has been my experience.

purely because it suits their ideologies, while being virulently genocidal to many other people in the world, I'm not gonna give their groups anything less than the scorn they deserve.

A broken clock is right twice a day, as they say. Just because the former grand wizard of the kkk says Israel is committing a genocide, I'm not gonna suddenly think the kkk is a good group.

Similarly, just because these groups decide to be against the genocide of Palestinians...

These people constantly, actively collaborated with our killers and of course the regimes know this and infiltrate easily. Groups that do that should just be ostracized.

I treat them the same as I treat the Nazis on the right, since they have been genocidal for my people. Our political compass doesn't have to be limited to the US version of he "left"/"right" binary.

If you come here demanding an explanation and asking me when "American intervention has helped" I'm blocking you. If you feel that criticism of your ideology equals wanting people bombed by the US, then go cope elsewhere please.

Where in my post did I say American intervention is good? Again, Blocked.

Many Iranians in my mentions were shocked to see this dynamic from a segment of the pro Palestinian crowd, during the protests...

My whole life has been filled with that and you can feel free to read up on the things I've written. I don't owe you an explanation.

I have named many and I'm not here to explain myself to you on my post filled with pain. Blocked.

The former aids the latter's case against our immigration by saying that we're not fleeing persecution from our home countries and that we're lying.

I really do feel for Iranians, coming from a region that is harmed by both the "anti imperialist left" and the right. The former teams up with our genocidal governments as long as they say they're against the US, the latter wants us bombed into oblivion and prevented from immigrating.

Another one is ignorance in the US, only having a limited way of seeing the world and analyzing it, which drives me nuts. Binary thinking and only one way of analyzing who good actors are and who bad actors are, such that people get recruited to rhetoric that they deem to be on their side.

Lol same

As for the kids, we sang all sorts of communist propaganda but I was too young for the mandatory reading groups :)

In my mom's case you wouldn't want to disagree lol but you had to be seen being engaged in discussion so as not to be suspected of opposing the government.