@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
The wait is (almost) over! @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social is coming to audiences on March 27th! Screenings and rentals are available via Kinema, and the film will stream free on PBS and YouTube this fall. Details at: notaidoc.com
A link to a pdf of @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @xriskology.bsky.social's "The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence."
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I'm not sure why you feel so entitled to my time and attention and I am not going to retype all of my arguments here 300 characters at at time for you, especially since you are engaging with none of them. I'll leave you with this, on automatic transcription:
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I really wish that my colleagues in NLP who are getting all worked up about the one post from this thread that escaped containment had enough curiosity to look at the context it was from, this this part:
"African governments are paying billions of dollars to Chinese companies for so-called ‘smart city’ products for public space surveillance – including AI-enabled CCTV and control centres..."
www.ids.ac.uk/news/smart-c...
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Politicians discovered existential AI risk the same quarter AI companies needed the conversation moved away from copyright lawsuits and water bills. Convenient timing on that pivot
Not sure if that's the type of mistreatment you are describing.
Damn well I knew his staffers were, at best, completely misinformed w.r.t. "AI" but I didn't know about the mistreatment. I guess I'm not surprised. There's a particular brand of virulent racism and sexism among a certain segment of white progressives, especially those in the labor movement.
No "AI" generated applications please. We read every application. E.g. we read through nearly 600 internship applications a couple of years back. It's pretty easy to tell whether someone is blasting slop or truly spending the time to apply.
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Sigh.
Bernie has gone full on "super intelligent AI could become smarter than human beings" and "pose an "existential threat to the entire human race."
Literal quote from him. Dude was supposed to be the guy against Silicon Vally CEOs not the one who parrots their propaganda.
“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”
Admin complicity has been kind of heartbreaking
> Many universities’ administrations are embracing AI for instruction, research, and evaluation. In some cases, AI has guided decisions about which programs to cut at times of austerity in the education sector.
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
100% the inclusion of @timnitgebru.bsky.social in Grammarly's fake "expert review" feature was a bit of slimy, acidic trolling from some juvenile AI dudebro. Just unbelievably nasty
Reminds me how Altman picked Miyazaki's aesthetic for a viral trend as revenge
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism
Nearly ten years after the start of a vast investigation, a Dutch court has convicted an Eritrean man for organizing the capture and torture of migrants en route to Europe, in order to extort money from their relatives.
Eritrean refugees in #Egypt are reporting fear, arrests, torture, rape, and imminent deportation. We call on UNHCR to intervene decisively & on Egyptian authorities to halt removals pending full protection review
Egypt is a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Was the Anthropic hullabaloo ultimately an example of an AI company finally standing up to the Trump regime and doing the “right thing” when it comes to concerns about the lethal entanglement between the military & “AI”? Sadly, no.
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"Last May, ICE spent $5 million on a subscription with Thomson Reuters, which sells data to both the public and private sector, to provide what ICE describes as "license plate reader data to enhance investigations for potential arrest, seizure and forfeiture."
A nation under constant surveillance by a masked gestapo of secret police has NO freedom
A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.
“She yelled, ‘Emily, Emily, we're going to take you home!’ Then she looked at her phone and she recited my home address,” she says.”
“And then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture of me and my car,” she says.
Emily says she decided to leave at that point, but the SUV made a sudden U-turn and barreled towards her, braking next to her driver's side window.
This dystopian future is here now.
"Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot.
www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-...
This. There is a shocking desensitization that is increasingly common around war. From the White House, and even from voices in the Horn, as the comment section in the YouTube video shows. Weaponizing nationalism and turning war into a partisan arena of winners or losers is just plain vile.
Was on the Global Dispatches podcast last week with Mark Leon Goldberg, to discuss the complexities of brewing conflict in the Horn, & the vested interest many Gulf powers have.
Recorded just before all hell broke loose in the Middle East.
Will have a follow up addressing more recent developments.
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