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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

Timnit Gebru
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by Timnit Gebru

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Thank you ❤️
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And mabye that's why he made the comments he made in response to my concerns about race in the article above which I'm not sure you've read.
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But maybe, hear me out, the fact that they're white is salient and that's why I mentioned it before you came here to argue with me. Maybe white men are the ones who think that race and gender doesn't matter because they've been so used to their race and gender being the defaults.
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by Timnit Gebru

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We no longer have the time nor the space for people who want to come to us with the "I don't see race" or "reverse racism" or "why do you bring up the race and the gender" type comments. Truly.
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I have no time for this nonsense sir, do this stuff elsewhere please.
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Even worse.

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Too old to answer to the whole why is race relevant or why is gender relevant thing at this point lol.
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To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.
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by Timnit Gebru

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To a white dude, a hypothetical magical fairytale scenario that both makes the godmaker is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.
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by Timnit Gebru

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They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.
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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by Timnit Gebru — Reposted by: Alan Richardson

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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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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 3d
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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by Timnit Gebru

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Again, the absolute audacity is unmatched.
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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 6d
i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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by Timnit Gebru

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for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...
The TESCREAL Bundle
The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.
www.dair-institute.org
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by Timnit Gebru

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The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
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by Timnit Gebru — Reposted by: Timnit Gebru

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A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.
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Saw this article linked by @wonkish.bsky.social in the replies here and wanted to expand on it a little, because this really does feel like a place where a tech solution *is* warranted to help address a major problem. 🧵

www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24...
A screenshot of the title of an article from The Verge. It reads: This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? Big tech companies are backing the C2PA’s authentication standard, but they’re taking too long to put it to use. by Jess Weatherbed Aug 21, 2024, 6:00 AM PDT A screenshot from the linked The Verge article. It reads: Step one: the industry adopts a standard A body like C2PA develops an authentication and attribution standard. Parties across photography, content hosting, and image editing industries agree to the standard. Step two: creators add credentials Camera hardware makers offer to embed the credentials. Editing apps offer to embed the credentials. Both hardware and software solutions work in tandem to ensure creators can confirm the origins of an image and how / if it’s been altered during edits. Step three: platforms and viewers check credentials Online platforms scan for image credentials and visibly flag key information to their users. Viewers can also access a database to independently check if an image carries credentials.
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by Timnit Gebru

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Please spread the world and encourage people who you think may be interested, to apply.
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by Timnit Gebru — Reposted by: Timnit Gebru

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Applications for JamCoders, a 1 month free algorithms & programming camp for Jamaican high schoolers, are now open.

Head over to jamcoders.org.jm#apply. No programming experience required for students.

We're looking for students & teaching assistants.

Deadline January 31.
JamCoders
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by Timnit Gebru

Reposted by: Timnit Gebru, Meredith Broussard

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“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim
A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.
futurism.com
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by Timnit Gebru

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Bernie's people were quote tweeting Dario's article talking about his "fear" of what Anthropic's "AGI" was gonna do while he was raising billions.

Bernie, why not talk about the millions of books they're pirating or the workers they're exploiting rather than do free propaganda for them?
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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d
Bernie's staff would be well to pay attention to actual research on this topic, and the historical record on automation, rather than buying into the tech industry's hype in their marketing and paper-shaped objects.
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After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾
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Bernie's staff would be well to pay attention to actual research on this topic, and the historical record on automation, rather than buying into the tech industry's hype in their marketing and paper-shaped objects.
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So not only did they use a synthetic text extruding machine to do the analysis, it also suggested that these jobs can actually be automated.

My guess is that they did an "analysis" like the "GPTs are GPTs" paper. We discussed this when it came out.

www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Is ChatGPT really going to take your job? Emily and Alex unpack two hype-tastic papers that make implausible claims about the number of workforce tasks LLMs might make cheaper, faster or easier. And w...
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With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...
Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds
A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs
www.axios.com
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Reposted by: Timnit Gebru

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Apropos of today's Discourse™️, I'd like to circulate the link to this paper again:

doi.org/10.1177/0963...

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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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Reposted by: Timnit Gebru, Mark Rubin, Lesley A. Hall , and 3 more

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New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1
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