Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace and writing about the dangers of large language models: https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.

Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/) to work on community-rooted AI research.

Author: Deep Unlearning, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria

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2026-04-27 17:54:25 GMT

This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of someone who experienced ChatGPT enabled psychosis.
I'll also note how the TESCREAL framing of "alignment" is basically marketing for the companies, which is why it is pushed by the same funders of the AI companies in the name of "AI safety."
https://joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

2026-04-08 02:07:27 GMT

🔇🔇🔇 On Friday April 17th (9am PDT/5pm CET/7pm EAT), we'll have a virtual event introducing our Refugees, Migrants & AI research which centers their lived experiences.
We introduce a limited podcast series highlighting Sudanese refugees, discuss tools like Surveillance Watch, and show how immigrant communities are supporting each other through Respond Crisis Translation.
We end with a creative workshop to remind us that the future is ours to shape.
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2026-04-02 02:07:17 GMT

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I appreciated this article by @mttaggart
infosec.exchange.
I get the temptation especially in this world we're all living in where you have to produce something super fast all the time.
But my question is, what are people's arguments for how functioning software can be created with these tools?
What about new architectures, new ways of thinking, new programming languages, etc? Who will create those?
https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

2026-04-02 02:04:43 GMT

This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health care to god knows what.
These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance reviews for "not using AI."
These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

2026-03-19 23:02:06 GMT

"Chan suggested that the team stay optimistic about Trump’s presidency, that they wait and see what would happen. At one point, [...] Chan’s eyes welled as she described witnessing the “peaceful transfer of power” and conveying that moment to her immigrant parents. 🙄
https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-politics-pr/

2026-03-09 20:54:04 GMT

As someone who came to the US as a refugee with political asylum I can't overstate how cruel this is. I was already terrified and had nightmares every day. And here they're telling you that you didn't get to safety after all that, that they will reverse your status on a whim, if they deem it safe for you to return. As Warsan Shire wrote, no one leaves home unless home becomes the mouth of a shark.

2026-03-04 23:30:34 GMT

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Plenty more to say but let me stop here. You wanna get mixed up with these people? Don't see we didn't tell you 🤷🏽
Additional reading: https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/

2026-03-04 23:30:30 GMT

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Is that billionaire Jaan "I will fund OpenAI, Anthropic and any other white dude who talks about 'effective altruism' and saving humanity while getting themselves wealthy" Tallinn? Yea.
Is that Ray "Jeffery Epstein says he knows him well" Kurzweil? (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-the-transhumanist-pedophile-who-hoped-to-live-forever/) Yea. He has the mic and wants to warn all of us about the impending singularity explosion brought about by AI. We should help him save us.

2026-03-04 23:30:21 GMT

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The billionaires and eugenicists on this manel are the actual existential risks to humanity we should worry about.
Is that Nick "Blacks are more stupid than whites" Bostrom? Yea
Is that Sam Harris? Yea
Is that Max "I accidentally offered a grant to pro Nazi media outlet" Tegmark? (https://www.vice.com/en/article/future-of-life-institute-max-tegmark-elon-musk/) Yea but not in the photo, he's at the podium.
Is that Muskrat? Of course

2026-03-04 23:30:01 GMT

Seems like the Future of Life Institute has succeeded in legitimizing themselves the same way Angela Saini outlined race scientists legitimized themselves through the academy (read her book Superior). I guess $700 MILLION DOLLARS in crypto money in one sitting gives you the resources to do that!
Everyone wants to sign their letters that they put out every few years.
Take a look at this manel which happened around their first letter 🙄 and ask yourself if you wanna be around these people.
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2026-03-02 22:22:29 GMT

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The former aids the latter's case against our immigration by saying that we're not fleeing persecution from our home countries and that we're lying.

2026-03-02 22:19:10 GMT

I really do feel for Iranians, coming from a region that is harmed by both the "anti imperialist left" and the right. The former teams up with our genocidal governments as long as they say they're against the US, the latter wants us bombed into oblivion and prevented from immigrating.

2026-02-28 19:35:07 GMT

"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. ‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.
But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/the-cult-that-wants-to-give-human-rights-to-robots/

2026-02-21 03:03:19 GMT

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@nprofile…3v3p Truly 💔

2026-02-20 21:34:17 GMT

Ethiopia and Eritrea are preparing for full-scale war again. One side backed by the UAE and the Nobel Peace Prize (thank you again for awarding the peace prize to a genocider), another side backed by Egypt and the Saudis. My whole life has been wars between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
It is inconceivable that these shameless people are going back to war, before people have even finished counting their dead from the last one.

2026-01-07 21:49:43 GMT

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@nprofile…gfcr @nprofile…curl I was saying that scrapers have gone around paywalls in other scenarios so I don't think it would stop them here.

2026-01-07 20:38:44 GMT

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@nprofile…gfcr @nprofile…curl w.r.t. paywalling something, and if its about rising costs due to DDOsing, then ACM should work more on holding BigTech accountable rather than punishing the public.

2026-01-07 20:37:00 GMT

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@nprofile…gfcr @nprofile…curl I feel like the scrapers would go around that stuff anyways, as they do with other websites.

2026-01-07 17:59:08 GMT

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Amazon, of course tried to discredit our work, but when Tekendra asked them what "complete data" would look like, as they said our research was based on "incomplete data", "the spokesperson did not respond to my follow-up on what Amazon considered complete data."
Of course.

2026-01-07 17:58:55 GMT

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"By now we have become so accustomed to reports of exploitation of gig workers that it is almost quaint to think back to the mid-2000s when Big Tech marketed the gig economy as unshackling workers from the scrutiny of micromanaging bosses while bringing entrepreneurship to the masses."
Indeed.
He also discusses our report, by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, @nprofile…8f3n & Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, on Amazon's wage theft through surveillance..
https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/

2026-01-07 17:57:31 GMT

Tekendra Parmar writes about a fake reddit post that went viral, on how DoorDash treats its drivers. I said that I'd have believed the post cause it's close to how companies treat gig workers, like machines controlled through opaque algorithms.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doordash-deep-throat-scam-lays-bare-new-era-untruthiness-2026-1

2026-01-07 16:15:43 GMT

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My papers are some of the most downloaded in a number of ACM's conferences and magazines.
While rich institutions have bought in, it seems like nearly every community college in America is locked out! Students, researchers, and practitioners are excluded from features necessary to navigate and understand the computing literature---features that were available to them free of charge a month ago.

2026-01-07 16:15:34 GMT

Friends, at a time when science is under attack and people are economically hurting, the scientific community should work to make access easier not harder. @nprofile…curl, Association for Computing Machinery, is doing the complete opposite by introducing paywalls that didn't exist.
Features that were previously free and open to the public are now "Premium
Access" features.
If you are opposed to this measure, join me in signing this petition asking the ACM to stop.
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restore-fully-free-and-open-access

2025-12-30 22:47:45 GMT

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That includes American citizen Ciham Ali who was imprisoned at 15 years old in 2012 and hasn’t been heard from since."
Eritrea is the only country in the world that has never had elections, and has never instituted its constitution. It has zero free press, no parliament or no independent arm of government except for the ruthless dictator Isaias Afewerki who has ruled with impunity for 30 years.

2025-12-30 22:47:25 GMT

Below is an excerpt from what I wrote before. Just think about where these monsters are sending these poor young people to.
"Eritrea boasts the longest detained journalist in the world, and with over 360 detention facilities (many underground) in a country of 45 kmi², the regime has disappeared all dissidents (even imprisoning them in shipping containers in temperatures that induce one’s skin to be stuck to the walls), with no due process or trial.
#nevent1q…0phc

2025-12-26 18:15:26 GMT

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“We take our job of replacing humans in all economically viable work pretty dang seriously,” he added, reassuringly."
The Future of Life Institute was started by someone who believed that only the building of so-called AGI would stop us from the "cosmocalypse" BTW. And that even climate change didn't post an "existential risk to humanity," not even the collision of galaxies did, only AI. It's either utopia or apocalypse according to them and all because of "super intelligence."

2025-12-26 17:09:13 GMT

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"Pressed on whether marketing an addictive AI chatbot to kids is ethical, Hardin shrugged: “I mean sure, but that’s not really our problem. That’s something parents or maybe lawmakers might want to look into.”
"AI safety" brought to you by the likes of The Future of Life Institute who are now armed with $700m+ thanks to crypto billionaires.

2025-12-26 17:09:09 GMT

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This institute, cofounded by Musk, circulated an email about me not just internally but to their "partners" a couple of years ago when I started calling them out as eugenicists in the TESCREAL bundle, as we wrote in our paper.
They didn't name me but it was clear they were talking about me, hence the reason someone forwarded me the email.

2025-12-26 17:09:01 GMT

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Other messaging includes insults like “stupid, smelly, squishy,” alongside the ominous statement: “It’s time for a human solution.”
KRON4 contacted Replacement AI and spoke with someone claiming to be the startup’s “humble unpaid intern,” Chase Hardin.
Coincidentally, Hardin shares a name with the communications director for the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on AI safety."
What did I tell you about so called "AI safety" and the Future of Life Institute?

2025-12-26 17:08:49 GMT

"The ads, from a company calling itself Replacement AI, feature dark, dystopian taglines."
The ads, from a company calling itself Replacement AI, feature dark, dystopian taglines.
One reads: “AI does your daughter’s homework. Reads her bedtime stories. Romances her. Deepfakes her. Don’t worry. It’s totally legal.” Visitors to the Replacement AI website are greeted with a banner declaring, “Humans are no longer necessary.”
‘Stupid. Smelly. Squishy.’
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/if-this-is-a-joke-the-punchline-is-on-humanity-replacement-ai-blurs-line-between-parody-and-tech-reality/

2025-12-22 23:20:05 GMT

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Good thing we didn't. I'd say that was a win for "open science." The hypocrisy. Maybe don't use your power to order researchers to retract papers you don't find to be sufficiently full of hype if you claim to care about "open research"?

2025-12-22 23:20:00 GMT

I see that Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he apparently cares about "open science" or "open research" or some such. That's news to me.
He is the Google VP who wrote a condescending, bizarre, what was meant to be anonymous, "privileged and confidential" letter which was then sent to the HR department, instructing me and my coauthors to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.

2025-12-22 17:33:22 GMT

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Is logistic regression "AI"? What about convex optimization? Are LLMs AI? What about an image recognition system built without using "feature learning" techniques but done through "feature engineering"?
Is the resulting model AI or the technique that is used to build the model or the task that said model is solving? What about statistics? Is that "AI"? Which parts of it are "AI" vs not? What about information theory?

2025-12-22 17:33:04 GMT

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Now, ChatGPT is bucketed under the same term as a model trained to translate a specific language into another and which is carefully trained through curated data.
This model is also bucketed under the same term as a plant recognition tool built exclusively to do that task and trained and evaluated only on data related to that task.
This tool is also bucketed under the same term as the different types of techniques that are used to train the model used in the tool vs the resulting tool itself.

2025-12-22 17:32:37 GMT

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all being bucketed under "AI", is misleading. This is why @nprofile…6r7d and @nprofile…lc00 say to name the specific thing being discussed rather than calling it "AI". 🧵

2025-12-12 03:48:29 GMT

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, writes that my collaborator and I warned about these eugenicists a few years ago and were called all sorts of names. As she writes, we were "treated as extremists and conspiracy theorists." Even so-called "critics" of large language models came for me unsummoned as I spoke up about this. Marcus and LeCun were on the same side on this one, the side of attacking me for calling out these eugenicists.
https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-late

2025-12-10 20:53:20 GMT

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who actually told you so.
And then it will be rinse and repeat, onto the next grift.

2025-12-05 02:09:16 GMT

I am currently having the displeasure of watching Peter Thiel's keynote at the 2013 "Effective Altruism (EA) Summit".
Yes. I too didn't understand what Thiel and "altruism" have to do with each other, but it made sense after I knew that EAs are super effective at the opposite of "altruism".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8KkXcBwHec&list=UUtof1Jy55dicAIGZ-09rB3A

2025-12-03 01:11:20 GMT

This will end well 😩
New report from AI No, written by Dr. Sofia Guerra @nprofile…67fk
Link: https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/fission-for-algorithms
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2025-12-02 22:34:28 GMT

I can't believe it is already our FOURTH Anniversary. Happy anniversary to us 🎉🎉 🎉
We have a small but mighty team. Each of these projects could be institutes of their own. I've been working at DAIR twice as long as I was as the two long years at Google, and it flew by because that's what happens when you love your work and are surrounded by great people 🥰
Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/
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2025-12-01 22:21:56 GMT

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-center-water-pollution-amazon-oregon-1235466613/

2025-11-21 22:19:13 GMT

My 2 cents on so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
AGI is a fictional, undefined machine god, which is causing harm and goes against the backbone of engineering principles.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7QoA2Ljsh2w

2025-11-20 23:58:59 GMT

Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, 60 minutes and such, 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.
By @nprofile…z58d and @nprofile…6r7d
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/openai-tries-to-shift-responsibility-to-users/

2025-10-22 22:42:52 GMT

Stanford is prosecuting 11 pro-Palestine protesters on felony vandalism charges & demanding $300K+ in restitution. Consider signing this petition to drop the charges: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/support-the-stanford-12-drop-the-charges-on-students
Unsurprising although disgusting to see my alma mater on the wrong side of genocide.
Watch them use the activism of the students whose lives they’re trying to destroy in some orientation story in a few decades.

2025-10-20 00:49:40 GMT

Translation:
After we built an addictive tool based on stolen data, exploited labor and plundering the environment, which pushes kids to commit suicides, we were like, why not cash in on "erotica"? After all, this is what building so-called AGI that "benefits humanity" looks like.
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2025-10-10 01:11:43 GMT

What's the latest excuse for bothsidesing colonization and apartheid culminating in a livestreamed genocide?
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2025-08-26 23:00:39 GMT

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While it is the LLM that is “obliging” by providing the positive review, the reviewer is ultimately responsible for the LLM’s review, and consequently they would bear the consequences. On the other hand, we consider the injection of such a prompt by an author to be an attempt at collusion which would similarly be a code of ethics violation."
And you know they added this because someone actually did it and a reviewer who I presume was using an LLM to review, found this out.

2025-08-26 23:00:33 GMT

Truly wild reading.
"If such a prompt injection is included in a submission and it consequently results in a positive LLM-generated review, we consider this a form of collusion (which, as per past precedent, is a Code of Ethics violation) that both the paper authors and the reviewer would be held accountable for, because it involves the author explicitly requesting and receiving a positive review.
https://blog.iclr.cc/2025/08/26/policies-on-large-language-model-usage-at-iclr-2026/

2025-08-21 19:01:02 GMT

I just learned from @nprofile…7kmy about how Leibniz discussed calculus while corresponding with his benefactor. She shared that in a letter in 1673, he wrote that his machine was meant to substitute human calculus/thinking "in accounting, measurement, fortification, shipping, indeed all of mathematics & mechanics, as well as commerce & finance, reducing human labor by half & saving on the unnecessary number of people required for these tasks & on many wages."
Talk about how funding shapes science.

2025-08-02 12:45:09 GMT

When it’s the likes of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair doing serious journalism on Silicon Valley because other so-called serious news outlets are doing more press-releases-as-journalism to maintain their access….Via @nprofile…7kmy
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/christianity-was-borderline-illegal-in-silicon-valley-now-its-the-new-religion

2025-07-18 20:38:44 GMT

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So now imagine what will happen if DODGE replaces federal workers with these tools to perform all the tasks that expert federal workers are supposed to do?
As we write, “There is no “one weird trick” that removes experts and creates miracle machines that can do everything that humans can do, but better.”

2025-07-18 20:38:39 GMT

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We dive into the well defined task of automatic speech recognition (ASR), and describe why OpenAI’s Whisper, which has been integrated into ChatGPT, makes stuff up, or “hallucinates” as it’s called in the industry (bad nomenclature). Their (and Muskrat and others’) quest to build one-model-for-everything has resulted in less reliable systems than what we’ve had before, even in the well defined task of ASR. As in, historically “hallucinations” weren’t problems in ASR systems!

2025-07-18 20:38:22 GMT

Resurfacing this op-ed since neither DODGE nor AI Hype seem to be on the decline.
In this Op-ed for Scientific American, Asmelash Teka Hadgu and I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us. 🧵
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/replacing-federal-workers-with-chatbots-would-be-a-dystopian-nightmare/

2025-07-05 03:29:27 GMT

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@nprofile…6r06 I mentioned this in my conversation with Anika and how oral cultures gate keep knowledge to those who are supposed to have the knowledge. The modality is conducive to that. https://www.techpolicy.press/through-to-thriving-honoring-our-elders-with-dr-timnit-gebru/

2025-06-30 18:26:14 GMT

$2B funding rounds and $100M signing bonuses to individuals. Sure. There's no bubble here. Everything makes sense.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-meta-leadership-talent-rivalry/

2025-06-23 09:20:03 GMT

I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @nprofile…shcc's Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished the book, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It needs to be required reading for everyone in the tech industry, or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.
The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/

2025-06-19 11:36:43 GMT

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@nprofile…zelr I don’t even understand how anyone can say those things about “AGI” when even those who say they are working on it don’t define what it is. It is some random people’s fantasy that people have bought into, because someone said such a thing will happen, when they don’t even know what thing the people who are selling them so called AGI are talking about.

2025-06-16 10:08:53 GMT

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"They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field. “Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”

2025-06-16 10:05:43 GMT

Again I stand by what I said.
"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."
We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/

2025-05-29 23:15:22 GMT

"“Yes, [Trump] ticks many of the boxes,” Sellner, the Austrian activist and former member of a neo-Nazi group, tells WIRED when asked if he believes remigration is already in action in the US. “There are differences between Europe and the USA, but the common line is the same: preserving the cultural continuity by stopping replacement migration. Reversing the flows with border security, mass repatriations and incentives to leave.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-office-remigration-state-department-europe-far-right/

2025-05-22 20:13:59 GMT

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"After introducing himself and shaking hands with President Drake, the faculty member shared that many faculty are concerned about the repression of anti-genocide protesters, particularly at UCLA. President Drake declared that it was an inappropriate time and place to address the issue. After the faculty member suggested that it was appropriate given that the subject involved a genocide, President Drake became irate and yelled at the faculty member, who remained quiet....

2025-05-22 20:13:19 GMT

"We are writing to you with great concern to inform faculty about an incident that occurred on Sunday, May 18th before the SSHA graduation ceremony. One of our faculty colleagues was removed from the commencement procession line by plain-clothes police officers following a brief, informal conversation with President Drake, who was visiting as the commencement speaker."
https://mailchi.mp/cucfa/statement-condemning-faculty-member-removal-from-commencement

2025-05-18 20:12:40 GMT

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@nprofile…enad This is a very good one, and why shouldn't you just believe these claims just because they tell you it was "better" because of a single "high" number on a benchmark.

2025-05-18 20:07:13 GMT

I'm thinking about spending some time to write explainers on some topics that people have asked me about. Some would include synthesizing other people's work, some would include our own work etc. Any other topics you'd like to add to the mix?
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2025-05-13 22:56:58 GMT

"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it. Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study."
https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/

2025-04-25 21:47:23 GMT

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My womb is probably damaged. It really hurts. Please help me. I can't take it. During the time I stayed there they did so many things to my body. My back is filled with scars from getting beat up."
It isn't LIKE slavery. It IS slavery of the worst kind, like the terrible times in the 1800s when enslavers did this to Black people. But it is happening now.

2025-04-25 21:47:02 GMT

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"I need help. She am very sick. There are times when I was raped by 4 to 5 people in one day. For example when I get my period I get very sick. I can't bear it. I can't sleep. I can't get to town because I'm scared...
All the people who see me have said that ... I'm going to die. Please get me out of this country, help me with whatever you can. I have a scar in my hair (scalp). It makes me dizzy, I fall. I can't breathe. I'm short of breath.

2025-04-25 21:46:29 GMT

I have no words to describe the daily horrors we are seeing from Libya. I just translated a video from a helpless woman who said these words in Amharic. Follow the work of
@refugeesinlibya.bsky.social
who are doing the work that UNHCR should be doing with zero money.
These were the words I saw and translated. Warning, they are disturbing but many of us don't have the option of turning away when this is happening to so many of our people daily. 🧵

2025-04-22 22:17:10 GMT

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Another pronouncement I heard from Muskrat which he said looking at us with a straight face in 2015 was that "we will cure cancer in 10 years." He said that 10 years ago. I suppose he's doing that by defunding anyone who actually works on curing cancer.

2025-04-22 22:17:06 GMT

I heard about some pronouncements on "AI" "eradicating all disease" within a decade from one the priests of AGI on 60 minutes--the show which regularly puts out press releases masquerading as journalism (at least as it relates to tech).
And below is another pronouncement from another high priest of AGI. In any other world, people like this would be laughed off. But not in the twilight zone we're living in where they get even more resources and air time.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/383/925/502/543/122/original/b99343c4528836cd.png

2025-04-20 17:03:03 GMT

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@nprofile…7kmy sounds very familiar here in the USA too. Like the men who attacked me for speaking up on behalf of my colleagues who were called terrorists, Gary Marcus anyone? Defunding his eugenicist advisor and attacking me for calling out the TESCREAL bundle.

2025-04-17 06:14:17 GMT

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@nprofile…tqyr hmm I can do that fine so I don’t think it’s the server.

2025-04-15 19:19:13 GMT

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More importantly, we have put out a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on all social media platforms, further setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia and Eritrea: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-social/. Please send it over to anyone who will listen & can do something about it. Our people can’t afford another war.
If you do nothing else, please watch this short video narrated by Fasica, Nuredin, and exiled Ethiopian journalist @nprofile…cjx4
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wTpAFSQkB21YfMVfEpVLK8?start=0s

2025-04-15 19:18:01 GMT

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See Fasica's report at https://data-workers.org/fasica/
I will never forget the genocidal mania among the Ethiopian intelligentsia. It was a popular genocide, with your “progressive” diaspora falling over themselves to deny and justify it. The least we can do is raise awareness about what has happened and what is about to happen.
You can find our work thus far on https://www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genocide/.

2025-04-15 19:17:36 GMT

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We collaborated with content moderators like Fasica to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators.
Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years, and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded, and moderating genocidal content targeting your people. One of the moderators saw his cousin being murdered because that was a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.

2025-04-15 19:16:14 GMT

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But contrary to his claims and Yann LeCun’s lies saying that “95% of hate speech on facebook is removed by ‘AI’,” all social media is essentially 4chan in these languages and contexts.
We have now spent 3 years documenting these failures. We had no language technology to do this–not even the equivalent of a spell checker. So we partnered with Lesan founded by Asmelash Teka to create those tools.

2025-04-15 19:15:40 GMT

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I told people at Google about this, and asked them to build language technology and at the very least, have basic moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Although we were at Google, any concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to even be acknowledged. The same VP who sent an “anonymous” letter to HR telling me to retract my paper and setting the stage for my firing, however, commented that plenty of work was being done in that arena.

2025-04-15 19:14:55 GMT

🗣️🗣️🗣️ 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. Unlike Tigrayans whose sisters were being raped & parents murdered, I didn’t know exactly what was happening on the ground & who to believe. But I saw the genocidal speech targeting Tigrayans on social media, particularly from Eritreans, in Tigrinya. 🧵

2025-04-11 23:48:31 GMT

"Generators like xAI's emit huge amounts of nitrogen dioxide, a highly reactive gas which causes irreversible respiratory damage over time. And that's before you consider its effects on the ozone layer, or its contribution to acid rain, smog, and nutrient pollution in local soil and waterways. With 35 generators now chugging along, that's a whole chorus of turbines spewing the toxic gas into low-income, minority-led communities 24/7."
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-memphis-illegal-generators

2025-04-10 23:31:38 GMT

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If you come up with a new benchmark they'll just guzzle it as part of the training data and then claim to do "reasoning" on that.
It is so mind-boggling to me that people have to even spend time debunking these claims. Such a waste of resources that could be going to doing actual science and engineering work.

2025-04-10 23:31:31 GMT

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"Emergence"? Take a look at this paper showing how that is nothing but hot air: .
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/adc98a266f45005c403b8311ca7e8bd7-Abstract-Conference.html
-"Reasoning"? Lets set aside how they don't even have a definition for this. But literally change some minor thing on the benchmarks like a number, and you see how these models completely fail. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
-"Understanding"? Just watch this debate to see the rigor with which Emily discusses the topic vs those who make these wild claims: https://lnkd.in/e6bgM-43.

2025-04-10 23:31:05 GMT

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There is no difference between the likes of Stanford and any of these companies, they're one and the same. So schools like it make money from the hype and will perpetuate the hype.
The McKinseys and other huge consulting orgs are raking in bank on the hype, akin to all the people who made money during the gold rush, except for the people looking for gold.
All the things people call "laws" aren't laws and were never "laws". Scaling laws? Some people looked at some plots and came up with that.

2025-04-10 23:30:22 GMT

I'm halfway through this article and I like the points made thus far, which I very much agree with.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/
But I want to have an aside on the level to which people uncritically use the term "foundation models" and discuss "reasoning" of these models, when it is very likely that the models literally memorized all these benchmarks. It truly is like the story of the emperor's clothes. Everyone seems to be in on it and you're the crazy one being like but HE HAS NO CLOTHES. 🧵

2025-04-10 01:40:27 GMT

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@nprofile…qdk8 No they basically use them as cover for the bad things they're doing and if they don't put up then they get fired.

2025-04-08 18:33:46 GMT

Anyone working on "ethics" "fairness" "responsible AI" and such at these companies is giving cover for them to commit genocide. The only ones doing actual "ethics" or "fairness" are the ones protesting this and getting fired.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-azure-israel-top-customer-ai-cloud

2025-04-08 03:37:57 GMT

The only people doing real "responsible AI" work are those doing this.
"On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/microsoft-reportedly-fires-staff-whose-protest-interrupted-its-copilot-event/

2025-04-08 01:45:11 GMT

#FediBlock [email protected]. Another cursed Nicole spam account.

2025-04-08 00:38:42 GMT

Coming to an airport near you with those "convenient" face recognition tools which scan you so you walk out without doing any paperwork, will be security personnel matching your face to anything you've said or done and deciding whether you get harassed (or worse) or not.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

2025-04-04 21:59:01 GMT

This is a pretty comprehensive article by Anne Li, with quotes from @nprofile…gd2c, @nprofile…a5s8 @nprofile…5u9q and many more. I especially appreciate how it delves into the artistic nature of literary translation.
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/02/are-ai-models-advanced-enough-to-translate-literature-the-debate-is-roiling-publishing#pioneering-a-new-market
Our Data Workers' Inquiry Project led by Dr. Milagros Miceli also features an invited piece from Tadhg Mac Eoghain on the art of translation: https://data-workers.org/tadhg/.

2025-04-04 21:54:18 GMT

This is a pretty comprehensive article by Anne Li, with quotes from @nprofile…gd2c, @nprofile…a5s8 @nprofile…5u9q and many more. I especially appreciate how it delves into the artistic nature of literary translation. Our Data Workers' Inquiry Project led by Dr. Milagros Miceli also features an invited piece from Tadhg Mac Eoghain on the art of translation: https://data-workers.org/tadhg/.
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/02/are-ai-models-advanced-enough-to-translate-literature-the-debate-is-roiling-publishing#pioneering-a-new-market

2025-04-03 21:31:31 GMT

🔇🔇🔇 Join us next Friday April 11 for a hopeful virtual event & creative workshop to get us to think about our possible technological futures. After that we'll have a series of smaller creative workshops for those interested in participating.
✴️ Everything is free of course but if anyone makes donations they’ll go to supporting our artist collaborators.
✴️ Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-presents-imagining-possible-futures-tickets-1295350711849
⏰ Friday April 11: 9am-12pm PDT | 12pm-3pm EDT | 6pm-9pm CEST | 7pm-10pm EAT
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/276/153/911/370/884/original/9d889218be10d325.jpg

2025-04-03 21:30:44 GMT

🔇🔇🔇 Join us next Friday April 11 for a hopeful virtual event & creative workshop to get us to think about our possible technological futures. After that we'll have a series of smaller creative workshops for those interested in participating.
✴️ Everything is free of course but if anyone makes donations they’ll go to supporting our artist collaborators.
✴️ Register at https://lnkd.in/euvDUgpF
⏰ Friday April 11: 9am-12pm PDT | 12pm-3pm EDT | 6pm-9pm CEST | 7pm-10pm EAT
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/276/153/911/370/884/original/9d889218be10d325.jpg

2025-04-03 02:25:55 GMT

#FediBlock another Nicole spam account:
@[email protected]

2025-04-02 20:02:42 GMT

Google is like, you don't like that we dropped stuff from our so-called AI principles? Hold our beer.
"Google announced that it was paying...$32 billion for the acquisition of the Israeli cloud-computing security company Wiz. The acquisition...will be the largest ever of an Israeli firm...the co-founders of Wiz...are all veterans of Unit 8200, the signals intelligence division of the Israeli military, which is playing a key role in helping to carry out Israel’s wars...
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-acquisition-tech-wiz-israel-gaza-8200?r=iqold&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2025-04-02 14:35:09 GMT

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@nprofile…tqyr congratulations l!

2025-03-31 00:28:59 GMT

Join us for a Mystery AI Hype Theater livestream where @nprofile…5u9q will breakdown the latest "agentic AI" nonsense. See also the preprint she coauthored on the topic.
📑 arxiv.org/abs/2502.02649
⏰ Tomorrow (Monday March 31st) at 12pm pacific
➡️ We'll see you at www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

2025-03-30 22:28:27 GMT

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@nprofile…7qvd He wants to bless us with his superior genes as the world is having less people with superior genes like his.

2025-03-30 21:27:36 GMT

Y'all see why I can't stand these horrific men going off about the so-called "existential risks of AI" while simultaneously telling us everyone should be replaced by "AI"? One of the best grifts of the 21st century.
https://www.wsj.com/video/elon-musk-pushes-to-regulate-ai-existential-threat/498DA57B-8230-4F32-A7C3-26D88974FE65

2025-03-30 19:51:46 GMT

Friends, I'm pulling out of @nprofile…zqxh after all this nonsense surfaced. I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole. I believe that @nprofile…6jku and a number of us will hold the sessions we were planning on holding separately though.

2025-03-29 21:34:31 GMT

The best way to fight fascism is clearly to platform race scientists like Pinker 🤢
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/247/861/874/526/098/original/d56a70e92fd6f528.png