Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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Author: Deep Unlearning, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (you can now preorder at https://t.co/xlTTJu4wSs)

Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/)

Before that, fired from Google in 2020 for writing about the dangers of large language models and raising awareness about workplace discrimination (https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/)

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2026-08-28 15:21:35 GMT

The random Effective Altruist troll paid by billionaires to push disinformation about the environmental impact of AI (that its fake), being platformed on the Time 100 AI list tells you everything you need to know about mainstream media's role in the pushing the broligraphy's propaganda and disinformation. This troll suddenly became popular through coordinated social media campaigns.

2026-08-19 03:55:23 GMT

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media.
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

2026-08-13 11:29:48 GMT

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣
✴️ You can now preorder it at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unlearning/Timnit-Gebru/9781668093078
✴️ Is there a local bookstore that you think should order this book? Can you let me know, or, even better, let them know?
✴️ Is there a place I should plan to come for a book tour when the book is out? Can you lmk?
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2026-08-01 13:40:10 GMT

We're in the era of incompetence and cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media and clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

2026-07-30 02:08:40 GMT

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. That’s even more than the $1.35 trillion in debt the five companies officially reported in their financial data for the most recent quarter."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet

2026-07-24 14:26:10 GMT

Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of bullshit you are and then you run to daddy Trump saying to stop these bad Chinese models from entering our market.
The irony of OpenAI and Anthropic running to the government to save them whenever there’s competition and it’s this government that complains about “handouts” and communism.

2026-07-21 15:36:03 GMT

When physicist & best selling author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein sent me this declaration on AI written & signed by a bunch of mathematicians, I was initially super skeptical because I had seen a whole bunch of such “declarations” which, at best, are distractions from the actual problems we should be discussing. But once I started reading, I was mostly nodding my head up and down in complete agreement and super impressed at how spot on so many of the points were.
https://leidendeclaration.ai. 🧵

2026-07-04 15:50:23 GMT

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@nprofile…6huf @nprofile…l2x5 Its not my issue that you choose to associate with an ideology and a term literally COINED and popularized by the president of the British Eugenics Society. If you don't want to be lumped with that group it's your responsibility to actively dissociate yourself from it. It's not my responsibility to protect your feelings in this regard. Its my responsibility to raise awareness about ideologies that deem the likes of me subpar humans to be eliminated.

2026-05-29 19:21:05 GMT

Another great piece by @nprofile…6f48
"Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and black boxes are woven into the stories they tell."
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-black-box-myth-what-the-industry-pretends-not-to-know-about-ai/

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

2026-04-24 16:54:25 GMT

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They're sitting right across from me and I just look at them now thinking about what I should have said earlier. Assholes.

2026-04-24 16:53:25 GMT

Even after all these years and all this practice, when I'm met with a clear microagression and it catches me off guard, it completely disturbs my peace, makes me so angry and I 1 hour later I think about the way I should have responded it to it, especially the way these racists gaslight you.

2026-04-21 18:21:39 GMT

Fascinating read from Dijkstra from 1978 (while ignoring some other annoying stuff in there): https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html "when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes."

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.
☘️ Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887
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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

2026-03-22 00:40:57 GMT

"Galton and his fellow eugenicist / protegee Karl Pearson were not directly involved in the development of early computational machines. But Galton’s foundational work with multidimensional modeling — a technique he used while measuring the attractiveness of African and European women — shaped Pearson’s thinking as he developed statistical tools like logistic regression, which is one of the fundamental components of modern machine learning."
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview

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/

2025-07-14 17:51:09 GMT

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to tell *them* that he will consider suing me....

2025-07-14 17:48:17 GMT

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Then, when I reminded people of what he said, he called me a liar and "deceitful," and went to my collaborator who he quote tweets up there, to tell him that he will consider suing me if I don't stop the so-called lies.
Its incredible how many people normalize this type of treatment by your favorite white male so-called critics.
I have self respect even when other people don't respect me. I don't normalize this type of blatant racist and sexist acts.

2025-07-14 17:47:55 GMT

Reminder of what your favorite now so-called tech critic who was in the "singularity summit" mix for years, and was defending his advisor, race scientist Steven Pinker, was saying to me when I raised these issues.
First, he said I "can't call everything I disagree with eugenics."
Then, he attacked me, unsummoned, when I came to the defense of my colleague at UCLA who were being smeared by Judea Pearl for being against genocide.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/852/837/346/502/654/original/f6292b51155f14c7.jpeg

2025-07-14 13:58:22 GMT

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The dedication of the teaching assistants, chaperones and organizing committee, the importance of adjusting the lesson plan according to how the class is responding to the material, the importance of students learning how to learn and what to do when they are challenged and frustrated.
The most repeated line throughout the week was, once again, to go through things line by line and on pen and paper.

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/

2025-06-02 20:58:26 GMT

We also get many emails from people suffering from these delusions at DAIR.
https://www.404media.co/pro-ai-subreddit-bans-uptick-of-users-who-suffer-from-ai-delusions/

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/

2025-05-29 20:08:50 GMT

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Rudy Fraser is a technologist, community organizer, and founder of Blacksky Algorithms, where he builds decentralized social media infrastructure that prioritizes community-driven safety, data ownership, and interoperability.
Read more of Rudy's writings at https://blog.rudyfraser.com/

2025-05-29 20:05:32 GMT

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Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam (@so_treu) is an activist, artist & scholar from Atlanta, & one of the 1st people that identified the growing online threat of white nationalism & hate organizing online. They continue this work in the fediverse. See this convo with them & Artist Marcia X.
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/

2025-05-29 20:05:01 GMT

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Catt Small has worked with companies of all sizes. She started programming interactive games around the age of 10 & has been going ever since. In her spare time, Catt makes awkward video games, writes, and draws artwork of all kinds. You can view her work at https://cattsmall.com.

2025-05-29 20:04:46 GMT

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2025-05-25 21:47:26 GMT

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In hindsight, we should have known that the little air time we got was performative. But one always wants to believe that people can change. This was in the era of performative "DEI." So we shouldn't be surprised that they were waiting for the current opportunity they have received not to even pretend.

2025-05-25 21:47:00 GMT

When I think back on the amount of faith I must have had in my colleagues and hire ups who would have lunch with me and send me Christmas cards one day &fire me the next...
About 5 years ago, on Jun 24, 2020, we convinced Google research to give us the floor at the research all hands meeting. There, the handful of Black people involved in research, ranging from research scientists to recruiters, spoke about their experiences at the company. We were emotional and we really left it all out there.

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

2025-05-19 23:52:42 GMT

"In February, Microsoft ushered out at least five employees protesting their employer’s connections to Israel... The workers, who wore T-shirts reading, “Does Our Code Kill Kids, Satya?” were part of a worker-led campaign known as No Azure for Apartheid...calling on the company to cut ties with the Israeli government... The campaign is expected to hold a rally on Monday at the company’s annual developer conference..."
By Naomi Nix @nprofile…jfte & Trisha Thadani
https://wapo.st/43kG3K7

2025-05-19 19:22:29 GMT

My cousin's friend told me about a lawsuit she's part of. This organization (forgot the name) charged students for coding lessons (I think in javascript). My cousin's friend said that the company used to have office hours, multiple people to ask questions, etc.They then reduced staff to the point that there are no office hours, very few lectures & students are expected to many things on their own and, you guessed it, with the help of "AI."
The students have filed a lawsuit against the company.

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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2025-05-16 00:02:04 GMT

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Oops the link to our Palo Alto conversation is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLtwiP0uoo

2025-05-15 23:59:59 GMT

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In this Generative AI bubble, besides those selling real hardware like Nvidia, the people making money are those creating surrounding businesses in telling you how its going to make all your problems go away.

2025-05-15 23:59:57 GMT

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In our conversation with Malcolm Harris around his book Palo Alto, we discuss the ways in which the AI bubble is similar to the gold rush (see conversation at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLt...).
In the gold rush, it wasn't the people who were looking for gold who made the most money, it was those selling shovels or providing support to the people looking for gold.

2025-05-15 23:59:04 GMT

"Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps."
https://www.404media.co/american-schools-were-deeply-unprepared-for-chatgpt-public-records-show/

2025-05-15 23:39:13 GMT

Meanwhile in "liberal" institutions
"On the evening of April 30, dozens of police officers raided an outdoor film screening on the UCLA campus. Wearing riot gear & holding projectile weapons, they stormed into an enclosed plaza circled by dormitories. As a helicopter hovered overhead, 2 officers rode motorcycles into this pedestrian-only area filled with students who scattered, panicked...the police confiscated a screen that was literally a sheet strung between 2 poles."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fortress-ucla/

2025-05-15 23:15:20 GMT

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"At a hospital in the Ethiopian city of Adigrat, the second largest in the Tigrayan region, a nurse said she regularly treats women raped by Eritrean soldiers in the occupied areas."
"New cases of sexual violence are still coming to our medical facility, on average 15 to 20 cases daily including victims of gang rapes by three or more Eritrean soldiers," she told AFP by telephone.
https://www.barrons.com/news/life-under-eritrean-occupation-in-northern-ethiopia-ada2fe91

2025-05-15 23:14:55 GMT

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From our statement, https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-social/: "We can't say that we did not know. We are ringing the alarm bells for what is to come and urge you to act with us." What does it take to stop the most violent genocidal & graphic content from being shared on these platforms with impunity?

2025-05-15 17:49:42 GMT

I can't stand the level to which so many Africans, especially African men, admire Muskrat. A colonized mind is harder to fight than the colonizers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-starlink-state-department-gambia-africa-pressure

2025-05-15 02:02:30 GMT

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"A philosophy professor across the country at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock caught students in her Ethics and Technology class using AI to respond to the prompt “Briefly introduce yourself and say what you’re hoping to get out of this class.”

2025-05-15 02:02:18 GMT

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She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”