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Timnit Gebru
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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 .. more

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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 data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research. She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). .. more

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Apr 15
🔇🔇🔇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. 🧵

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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
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 5h
Deepmind's marketing department known as Nature.
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 5h
@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screen cap from linked article: Abstract The scarcity of subspecialist medical expertise poses a considerable challenge for healthcare delivery. This issue is particularly acute in cardiology, where timely, accurate management determines outcomes. We explored the potential of Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), a large language model-based experimental medical artificial intelligence system, to augment clinical decision-making in this challenging context. We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing large language model-assisted care with the usual care of complex patients suspected of having a genetic cardiomyopathy, and we curated a real-world dataset of complex cases from a subspecialist cardiology practice. Nine participating general Highlighted in blue: randomized controlled trial Screencap from linked article Ethics approval The clinical subspecialist evaluator component of this research involved the participation of physicians. This study adhered to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from each physician before their participation. This study used only retrospective, de-identified data that fell outside the scope of institutional review board oversight.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 5h
@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screen cap from linked article: Abstract The scarcity of subspecialist medical expertise poses a considerable challenge for healthcare delivery. This issue is particularly acute in cardiology, where timely, accurate management determines outcomes. We explored the potential of Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), a large language model-based experimental medical artificial intelligence system, to augment clinical decision-making in this challenging context. We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing large language model-assisted care with the usual care of complex patients suspected of having a genetic cardiomyopathy, and we curated a real-world dataset of complex cases from a subspecialist cardiology practice. Nine participating general Highlighted in blue: randomized controlled trial Screencap from linked article Ethics approval The clinical subspecialist evaluator component of this research involved the participation of physicians. This study adhered to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from each physician before their participation. This study used only retrospective, de-identified data that fell outside the scope of institutional review board oversight.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 6h
Q for those in medical science: Does the phrase "randomized controlled trial" mean that patients were actually receiving treatment (in at least one arm of the study)?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 6h
Translation: How dare you build something successful and self sustaining without having to grovel 🙄

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 7h
Friends, it seems real? www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
Billionaires march leader ID'd, says effort sincere
Startup founder not billionaire, but supports them.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 8h
Looking forward to reading when the story is out.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9h
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 10h
Lots of secret hostility.
- Rudy is a hack
- Blacksky is a semi-proprietary ethnocentric social network just “popping up”
- Blacksky is masquerading as fully open source

would you all like me to still speak at #AtmosphereConf this year?

I don’t have to.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11h
The devil doesn't need any more advocates, but also: do you see the dehumanization in the move you made there?

We don't "sample", we interact. Language is fundamentally social and reducing people to their "output" is the basic problematic move of the AI boosters.

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Andrea Basso @a4xrbj1.bsky.social · 20h
Tesla driver’s devastating 911 call while stuck in fiery car revealed: ‘Help please … I am going to die’

A 20-year-old Tesla driver pleaded with a 911 operator to save his life as he was trapped in a burning car, according to a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla filed by his mother on Wednesday.
Tesla driver’s devastating 911 call while stuck in fiery car revealed: ‘Help please … I am going to die’
A 20-year-old Tesla driver pleaded with a 911 operator to save his life as he was trapped in a burning vehicle, according to a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla filed by his mother on Wednesday.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 2d
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 2d
A good time to boost Black feminist tech scholars like @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social @poetofcode.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social , @ruha9.bsky.social & @safiyanoble.bsky.social

Check out Netflix doc on surveillance, tech, & race feat. many of these folks: shorturl.at/m5abv

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 2d
i know the people running it have said they’re trying to clean up what’s being posted, but seriously, if you can’t properly moderate your new platform, shut it down until you can instead of spreading the most vile material you can imagine. truly disgusted.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 2d
decided to see what upscrolled was like, and the third post i saw after making an account was csam

i already had concerns about the platform’s leadership, but now you can be certain i’m going nowhere near it and would recommend others stay away too

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d
It was ridiculous to see MacAskill's strange utopia post super intelligence pontifications at this time, like he is so out of touch he doesn't even pretend to read the room.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 2d
With the industry in the hands of wealthy moguls and governments who don't share the interests or the same passion for the craft as chronically underpaid muckrakers, journalism was always doomed. It's at the mercy of people who we are mandated to hold to account, a terrible setup from the get go.
Washington Post to lay off a third of staff | CBC Accessibility
The Washington Post is laying off one-third of its staff in the newsroom and other departments, a brutal blow to one of journalism's legendary brands.
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