AmygeekMay 2, 2023
Meredith Whittaker

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
May 2, 2023 at 1:15amWeb
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 threadMeredith WhittakerMay 2, 2023
This isn’t about credit, this is about the fact that there was a moment to act together, when the power these Men of AI wield could have been used in solidarity with a movement that was gaining ground to stop the worst of AI. They didn’t use their power that way. And here we are.
Show threadDraken BlackKnightMay 2, 2023
@Mer__edith Do you have a team working on a FOSS version of Android even more secure than GrapheneOS?
Show threadErin ConroyMay 2, 2023

@Mer__edith

This same tragic story has been repeated in so many fields of human knowledge & endeavor: women raise the alarm about the dangers to society or specific marginalized groups, and suffer the grim personal & professional costs of speaking out, while men focus solely on their professional growth, don't rock the boat even if they do have any doubts, and only express them once their position is unassailable, but the harms are baked in & it's too late to close the barn doors.

Show thread(((o))) Acoustic MirrorMay 4, 2023
@Mer__edith "Men of AI" sounds great. I'm writing it down on an post-it for future use. #MenofAI
Show threadDr. Damien P. Williams, MagusMay 4, 2023
@Mer__edith Yep.
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 2, 2023

@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

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?

Show threadOlaf KolkmanMay 5, 2023

@Mer__edith

Reminds me of @mariafarrell ‘s excellent piece.

https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

(Have you two ever met?)

The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

The Conversationalist
Show threadmariafarrellMay 5, 2023
@olaf @Mer__edith Thanks a million, Olaf. M and I are twitter pals with many mutual friends - one of these days we'll end up in the same meeting room, I'm sure!
Show threadMeredith WhittakerMay 5, 2023
@olaf @mariafarrell One of my favorites!
Show threadTomMay 2, 2023
@Mer__edith here’s the gift link for non-subscribers: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html?unlocked_article_code=TrDznvAx3YMkuKbLkS0wq6I8Wv08muHWaTnu0WoKFCOp_WNqrqd3L4RNsoX_5X4JqYj647u6HPI5QTl24Fkz1NJns9d9Oy6x8evFYkZLHh38qooxqXX6zAXbfLG_c2xByU877nXYSUFPnnvhTao1kbiEgnH-P1rj42OMdMO77BeCdVKw584Ns0TfAJuNugFkMe8SAwBVtCT7uYPKpdkE1fOhcA28Q7UXh7KiVwqEbyCL5U5qRoXtGldcEjKKergKIAA3ddMo6p6KDt8ktFvMGdXNkd9jMjCFY8df9i_gegWYApbjloB-w19O06db65WpLSGIBAQmjR7K_mEp_vBAPP7Zjts7ftxIzRNrK4qX2ATF6g&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
‘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 threadIan RobinsonMay 3, 2023
@tom Thanks for posting this link 👍🏻
Show threadShadowMay 2, 2023
@Mer__edith Wait until they connect A.I. to Googles Voice Assistant and Alexa....... what could go wrong?