@timnitGebru

Author: Deep Unlearning (preorder at https://xitter.cf/t.co/xlTTJu4wSs) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://xitter.cf/t.co/A44CkQldYv)

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Joined August 2011
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📢📢📢My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders at simonandschuster.com/books/D… 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 🫣
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

ALT Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Céline Keller@krustelkram18h
William MacAskill, aka the guru of Sam "the Bernie Madoff of crypto" Bankman-Fried who got 25 years for stealing 8 billion, still gets invited to write @TheEconomist & @guardian ... Perfect illustration of media as hype/propaganda machine *excuse me* complete media failure.
Céline Keller@krustelkramOct 8
Garrison „Longtermism=Socialism“ Lovely has been part of the 10 million PR Will MacAskill train for his climate denial book & the shamelessness of QT @timnitGebru to promote his own book should tell you he has not left the Effective Altruism cult or done any serious reflection.
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AI Now Institute@AINowInstitute14h
Last night, hundreds of people joined us and @MorePerfectUS at Webster Hall to hear from policy leaders, organizers, artists, and journalists about an alternate trajectory for the future of AI. Read remarks from @NYCMayor and @linamkhan via @Gizmodo 👇 gizmodo.com/zohran-mamdani-b…

Zohran Mamdani Backs Major Expansion of New York's Data Center Moratorium

The NYC Mayor said we are facing "complete abdication of federal law" when it comes to AI.

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Lina Khan
@linamkhanOct 15
If a firm's AI customer-service chatbot gives false information, traps customers in doom loops, or fails to actually help, that firm may be violating the law. A new brief from the Center for Law & the Economy's @stephtngu and @BorrowerJustice's Adam Teitelbaum explains the various laws that apply when businesses outsource customer service to AI chatbots. This is the first in a series explaining how existing laws apply to AI: law-and-economy.law.columbia… And a deeper dive published @HarvardJOLT: jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/…
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Yashar Ali 🐘
@yasharOct 20
Some key phrases in Christiane Amanpour's announcement today that she's leaving CNN. “I’ve decided to separate from CNN” “I’ve always been fiercely independent” “unprecedented pressures from all sides, political, financial...”
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Watching this @AINowInstitute and @MorePerfectUS event at youtube.com/live/ttrrVouMbXM. Now Mamdani and one of my favorite comedians, @ilazer.

LIVE: The People's AI Assembly

It’s time to build a tech movement that empowers working people, en...

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Not "almost Devine" they're telling us it IS Devine. Also I LOVE Ilana's question. WHY does it have to be in schools? It feels so nonconsensual.
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OMG I LOVE her even more I didn't know about her stances on AI. Spot on questions.
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)@HeidyKhlaafOct 19
It's yet again another example of AI companies pulling numbers out of thin air, without in anyway understanding how risk thresholds and assessments are achieved in safety-critical industries. This bill is nothing more than LARPing safety.
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)@HeidyKhlaafOct 19
A tell tale sign that AI companies have no safety expertise is that they promote the idea of "general" safety. There's no such thing, safety is relative to the system, environment, and context and why a catastrophic accident in nuclear is defined differently from one in aviation.
Barry Malone
@malonebarryOct 18
Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.
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AI Now Institute@AINowInstituteOct 19
TONIGHT (10/19): The People’s AI Assembly! Together with @MorePerfectUS, we're bringing together organizers, policymakers, labor leaders, journalists & artists who are charting an alternate trajectory for the future of AI. Watch the livestream at 7pm ET: youtube.com/live/ttrrVouMbXM
Image description: Maroon background with white text that reads: The People’s AI Assembly. October 19, 2026, 7pm. Webster Hall. Zohran Mamdani. Ilana Glazer. Samuel Black. Grandell “Bird” Hallett Logan, KeShaun Pearson, Matthew Rodriguez. Anand Giridharadas. Lina Khan. Bhairavi Desai. Veena Dubal. Lorena Gonzalez. Noam Scheiber. Jasmine Sun. Karen Hao. Naomi Klein. Arundhati Roy. Musical Performance by KOTA the Friend. Co-hosted by AI Now and More Perfect Union.

ALT Image description: Maroon background with white text that reads: The People’s AI Assembly. October 19, 2026, 7pm. Webster Hall. Zohran Mamdani. Ilana Glazer. Samuel Black. Grandell “Bird” Hallett Logan, KeShaun Pearson, Matthew Rodriguez. Anand Giridharadas. Lina Khan. Bhairavi Desai. Veena Dubal. Lorena Gonzalez. Noam Scheiber. Jasmine Sun. Karen Hao. Naomi Klein. Arundhati Roy. Musical Performance by KOTA the Friend. Co-hosted by AI Now and More Perfect Union.

Image description: Maroon background with white text that reads: The People’s AI Assembly. October 19, 2026, 7pm. Webster Hall. Zohran Mamdani. Ilana Glazer. Samuel Black. Grandell “Bird” Hallett Logan, KeShaun Pearson, Matthew Rodriguez. Anand Giridharadas. Lina Khan. Bhairavi Desai. Veena Dubal. Lorena Gonzalez. Noam Scheiber. Jasmine Sun. Karen Hao. Naomi Klein. Arundhati Roy. KOTA the Friend. Headshots for each included. Co-hosted by AI Now and More Perfect Union.

ALT Image description: Maroon background with white text that reads: The People’s AI Assembly. October 19, 2026, 7pm. Webster Hall. Zohran Mamdani. Ilana Glazer. Samuel Black. Grandell “Bird” Hallett Logan, KeShaun Pearson, Matthew Rodriguez. Anand Giridharadas. Lina Khan. Bhairavi Desai. Veena Dubal. Lorena Gonzalez. Noam Scheiber. Jasmine Sun. Karen Hao. Naomi Klein. Arundhati Roy. KOTA the Friend. Headshots for each included. Co-hosted by AI Now and More Perfect Union.

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Jeremy Flores@_jeremyfloresOct 18
The “public good” is something determined by the public itself, and the public has a say in its administration via democratic controls over a democratic state. This, instead, is your company stealing everyone’s work, dismantling the state, and then deciding who gets resources.
Jack Clark
@jackclarkSFOct 18
Between this and our prior commitments, roughly 20% of all Anthropic equity will be dedicated to the public good, and that commitment can grow as Anthropic grows. We plan to use these funds to ensure more people can share in the benefits of AI, and to increase our ability to provide funding to deal with its risks.
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Lol, this what “independent media” in the US looks like folks, in case you’re wondering about the information ecosystem. It’s press releases packaged as news.
Kevin Roose
@kevinrooseOct 19
this post announced what could be the largest commitment of philanthropic capital ever made ($200 billion if Anthropic goes public at $1 trillion, which is probably conservative) the first reply I saw asked if Anthropic was going to use it for “gay race communism”
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)@HeidyKhlaafOct 17
We warned about this exact scenario last year: That AI companies will situate themselves as the arbiters of life or death, taking over the arbitration of risk determinations and subverting democratic processes. All through the co-option of safety engineering terminology.
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@politicoOct 16
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

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It’s extinction today & utopia tomorrow folks, just flip a coin. Utopia if you give them 💰 extinction with those pesky open weight models. Ppl dying from data center pollution? School bombings using their software? Massive theft? Small price for utopia we’ll get any day now.
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@vikktorrrreOct 14
Dario Amodei: We may be only two or three years away from AI systems being better than humans at almost all tasks. “I call it a country of geniuses in a data center.” “Imagine tens of thousands of geniuses, smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across many fields.” “They could cure diseases and extend the human lifespan.” “I wouldn’t be surprised if we were able to double the human lifespan.” “They may even build robots for themselves and project themselves into the physical world.” “There are all kinds of questions around the balance of power.”
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Lol but it’s me who has to answer questions in the press about my “claims” of their goals. They literally spell it out and mainstream media and bought out politicians continue doing press release as a service for them.
Bayesian
@Bayesian0_0Oct 14
Anthropic RSP slides circa mid 2023 Faith for the machine god
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While I’m here take a look at our paper with @xriskology. The only thing their slides are missing is spelling out eugenics. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph…
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence Authors Timnit Gebru Émile P. Torres DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i4.13636 Abstract The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)

ALT The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence Authors Timnit Gebru Émile P. Torres DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i4.13636 Abstract The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)

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Boo Draculator@loomdoopOct 17
These are based on Scott Wiener’s California bills. This is why the AI companies are spending millions on multiple PACs for Scott Wiener. They want the own their regulators, and write any legislation that concerns them.
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@politicoOct 16
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

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Bayesian
@Bayesian0_0Oct 14
Anthropic RSP slides circa mid 2023 Faith for the machine god
loops@_smitopOct 13
Anthropic released their 2021 research roadmap earlier this year (because of copyright litigation); I think some people might find it interesting: i.sm4.ca/concise-research-ro…
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When Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic & their policy guy called my paper a “cognitive mind virus” some of you jumped in on the attack while too gullible to see what they were doing. Some of you are bought out by such corporations. But the rest of y’all are too easy to fool.
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@politicoOct 16
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

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The clearest and easiest regulatory capture I’ve seen. Too easy to execute.
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Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

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