Timnit Gebru
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
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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
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
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Timnit Gebru
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
· Apr 15
Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths
Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
english.elpais.com
🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
Pen and paper?
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
Altman describes OpenAI's forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone | TechCrunch
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
techcrunch.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Pen and paper?
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In our imagined future, research is...
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In our imagined future, research is...
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
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Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: Abi A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Artwork Credit: Abi A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: Abi A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Artwork Credit: Abi A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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In our imagined future, research is...
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In our imagined future, research is...
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of alternative techno-futures.
View the zine and join future events via the link in our bio!
Reposted by Timnit Gebru
Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: BOT65231251321189106669
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: BOT65231251321189106669
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Reposted by Timnit Gebru
Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: Selam A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Artwork Credit: Selam A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: Selam A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Artwork Credit: Selam A
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: Hanna Barakat, The Maybe
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Artwork Credit: Hanna Barakat, The Maybe
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do.
Artwork Credit: Hanna Barakat, The Maybe
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Artwork Credit: Hanna Barakat, The Maybe
These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio!
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Catch up on the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Catch up on the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
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“Mother Fletcher carried 111 years of truth, resilience, and grace and was a reminder of how far we’ve come and how far we must still go”
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Mother Fletcher carried 111 years of truth, resilience, and grace and was a reminder of how far we’ve come and how far we must still go”
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I thought Altman said they solved the problem /sarcastic
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I thought Altman said they solved the problem /sarcastic
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Comment faire plus court et percutant ? @timnitgebru.bsky.social explique que :
1- L'AGI est une chose fictive, sans réelle définition.
2- Pour développer un système, on met une entrée, on regarde la sortie. Si ça ne va pas, on corrige.
3- On teste les limites d'un pont (charge...)
Et pour l'AGI ?
1- L'AGI est une chose fictive, sans réelle définition.
2- Pour développer un système, on met une entrée, on regarde la sortie. Si ça ne va pas, on corrige.
3- On teste les limites d'un pont (charge...)
Et pour l'AGI ?
‘AGI is a fictional thing’ — Timnit Gebru on artificial general intelligence
YouTube video by nature video
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Comment faire plus court et percutant ? @timnitgebru.bsky.social explique que :
1- L'AGI est une chose fictive, sans réelle définition.
2- Pour développer un système, on met une entrée, on regarde la sortie. Si ça ne va pas, on corrige.
3- On teste les limites d'un pont (charge...)
Et pour l'AGI ?
1- L'AGI est une chose fictive, sans réelle définition.
2- Pour développer un système, on met une entrée, on regarde la sortie. Si ça ne va pas, on corrige.
3- On teste les limites d'un pont (charge...)
Et pour l'AGI ?
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AGI is a myth... and a 'terrible goal'
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
AGI is a myth... and a 'terrible goal'
Reposted by Timnit Gebru
Reposted by Timnit Gebru
Reposted by Timnit Gebru
A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
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Blacksky Algorithms & rsky, 1st merch drop. soon come
@blackskyweb.xyz
@blackskyweb.xyz
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Blacksky Algorithms & rsky, 1st merch drop. soon come
@blackskyweb.xyz
@blackskyweb.xyz
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Great answer from @timnitgebru.bsky.social about AGI youtube.com/shorts/899b7... - part of our future of AI feature www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
‘AGI is a fictional thing’ — Timnit Gebru on artificial general intelligence
YouTube video by nature video
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Great answer from @timnitgebru.bsky.social about AGI youtube.com/shorts/899b7... - part of our future of AI feature www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Gaslighting.
"Use this for xyz".
"This two-point font says you should never use this for xyz".
"Use this for xyz".
"This two-point font says you should never use this for xyz".
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Gaslighting.
"Use this for xyz".
"This two-point font says you should never use this for xyz".
"Use this for xyz".
"This two-point font says you should never use this for xyz".
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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cool great let's definitely keep this going.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
cool great let's definitely keep this going.
I should have known.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I should have known.
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It's why I'm coming to see these kinds of imagination exercises as foundational— I'm finding that removing ourselves from everyday constraints makes our common ground so much easier to see.
Thank you to everyone who attended this weekend ✂️🎨✨
Stay tuned for the final zine soon!
Thank you to everyone who attended this weekend ✂️🎨✨
Stay tuned for the final zine soon!
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It's why I'm coming to see these kinds of imagination exercises as foundational— I'm finding that removing ourselves from everyday constraints makes our common ground so much easier to see.
Thank you to everyone who attended this weekend ✂️🎨✨
Stay tuned for the final zine soon!
Thank you to everyone who attended this weekend ✂️🎨✨
Stay tuned for the final zine soon!
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This is essential!!
When we share values and a vision of the future with others, conflict and tension and difference can be generative. They strengthen us.
But ask any mediator: without a sense of shared goals or values, those same conflicts and tensions can decimate a relationship (or movement).
When we share values and a vision of the future with others, conflict and tension and difference can be generative. They strengthen us.
But ask any mediator: without a sense of shared goals or values, those same conflicts and tensions can decimate a relationship (or movement).
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is essential!!
When we share values and a vision of the future with others, conflict and tension and difference can be generative. They strengthen us.
But ask any mediator: without a sense of shared goals or values, those same conflicts and tensions can decimate a relationship (or movement).
When we share values and a vision of the future with others, conflict and tension and difference can be generative. They strengthen us.
But ask any mediator: without a sense of shared goals or values, those same conflicts and tensions can decimate a relationship (or movement).
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The Possible Futures workshops are so centering for me. They always bring me back to what any of this is for.
People approach this from so many angles, and still the same themes emerge: we want connection, belonging, healing, purpose, safety. 🧵
People approach this from so many angles, and still the same themes emerge: we want connection, belonging, healing, purpose, safety. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Possible Futures workshops are so centering for me. They always bring me back to what any of this is for.
People approach this from so many angles, and still the same themes emerge: we want connection, belonging, healing, purpose, safety. 🧵
People approach this from so many angles, and still the same themes emerge: we want connection, belonging, healing, purpose, safety. 🧵