Meredith WhittakerMay 2, 2023

I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern

This is not new or novel. It was women -
@timnitGebru, @mmitchell_ai, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html

‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.

The New York Times
Show threadMeredith WhittakerMay 2, 2023
Where were these guys when we spent months + thousand$ on lawyers? Where were they when we were organizing to stop it before it reached this point? Where were they when Sundar lied about us & diminished the risks we demonstrated? I'm not interested in dissent without solidarity.
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@Mer__edith,
even though annoying for you, I am glad that in you and the others, there finally seem to be #ComputerScientists, who did see the future coming a year ago.

Did any of you publish any warnings?

I am looking for publications that could lead to an analogy of "BigOilKnew" for the #AI firms.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438

May 2, 2023 at 2:00amWeb
Show threadclayoteMay 4, 2023
@HistoPol Assuming you're sincere, here's the paper that warned Google about AI, which resulted in the authors getting fired from Google https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 4, 2023

@clayote

Thanks a lot.
Will look into this over the weekend.

In the meantime, I have found this article with a lot of "leads", what do you think of it?

BTW, my personal stance on #AGI is the 1st pinned post.

Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 17, 2023

@clayote

Alas, the link doesn't seem to be working, could you please re-check?