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Timnit Gebru is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and… more

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"But mainstream language technologies for non dominant languages often treat dialectical variations as statistical “noise.” In my imagined archive, dialectal differences wouldn’t be viewed as noise but as signal. Every grandparent would record stories in their own dialect [...]"
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In her Possible Futures entry, Kathleen Siminyu writes about creating an oral archive of her elders' knowledge.

"Dialects carry unique histories, proverbs, and ways of naming the world" she writes.

📖 Read the piece at www.dair-institute.org/blog/tech-fo...
Profiles of two Black women, an elder with grey hair, and a young woman wearing cornrows, facing each other. The young woman is listening on her headphones. The headphones are plugged into an electronic device which also has the structure of a tree.
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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one of my favorite answers to this question comes from @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Émile P. Torres: the "TESCREAL bundle" which denotes "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, (modern) cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... #ai
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 7d
Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.

Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.
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anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 5d
Its like everyone is conspiring to shill for corporations plundering resources & mislead the public

OpenAI plants FOMO in the air
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Mainstream media interviews him about machine god
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Its like everyone is conspiring to shill for corporations plundering resources & mislead the public

OpenAI plants FOMO in the air
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Nobel prize awards Hinton
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Mainstream media interviews him about machine god
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You should have asked him about his claim that radiologists were going to be made obsolete in 5 years (which he said 8 years ago), and dismissing our concerns of the REAL issues of "AI" enabled discrimination?

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Interviewing people to claim to be building machine gods that pose an "existential threat to humanity" while the real existential threats are such people building their machines with stolen data, exploited labor and plundered environmental resources.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 5d
The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.

The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.

All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 6d
In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...
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The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.

The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.

All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 6d
In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...
AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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I wish @thedailyshow.com would stop talking to Doomers and TESCREALists and instead interview someone like Dr. Joy Buolamwini, @timnitgebru.bsky.social , @ruha9.bsky.social , @mmitchell.bsky.social , @alexhanna.bsky.social or me :)
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What's the latest excuse for bothsidesing colonization and apartheid culminating in a livestreamed genocide?
@BarackObama After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza – and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.
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You can also apply to be a TA using the same portal.
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Reminder to apply to AddisCoder, a one month free algorithms and coding camp for high schoolers in Ethiopia. Deadline is December 31. Spread the word to those who may benefit from the program.

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These past few weeks, I’ve done a lot of public engagement, and it’s reminded me how hard science communication can be!
Milagros Miceli at the Argentinian late-night-show "Otro Día Perdido"
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Relatedly:

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Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical
In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise…
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Self proclaimed "genius rationalist" eugenicist with a claim to fame being writing a harry potter fanfic is someone to listen to and collaborate with.
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One of the people who they boasted endorsed the AI 2027 thing is a eugenicist cult leader pontificating about at which age children have a "right to life" & whether its the immigrants' "dysgenic (the opposite of eugenic) pressures getting everyone stupider.

Yes we should all just get along.
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We are looking forward to this talk next Tuesday with Dr.
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about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement.

➡️ In-person and via livestream: bit.ly/42kxaQV

#AGI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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by Timnit Gebru — Reposted by Southern Africa

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Its the modern day version of the white man's burden. Colonialism and empire building at its best, using the same arguments of empires of yore as Karen Hao so eloquently put it in her book, Empire of AI.

This IS the side to fight against, not the side to join in service of some larger goal.
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This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."
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One side, "AI 2027" is led by a bunch of privileged white people working at the companies causing the other side (AI con/Empire of AI).

One side, the "AI is gonna be so powerful if you don't let US be the AGI builders" is making money from stealing data, killing the environment & exploiting labor.
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Slide with “we are here” in bottom left with an arrow pointing top right towards two groups of words: “AI2027” & “everyone dies” and then “AI con” “AI snake oil” “Empire of AI”
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 6d
If your invited keynote speaker works for a company started because OpenAI wasn't basing its work enough on science fiction and said speaker uncritically cites TESCREAList, fictional work masquerading as science, you might not have organized a serious academic gathering.
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