Momin M. MalikMay 7, 2023
Timnit Gebru (she/her).

“ What I hear in that is, “Those aren’t existential to me. I have millions of dollars, I am invested in many, many AI startups, and none of this affects my existence. But what could affect my existence is if a sci-fi fantasy came to life and AI were actually super intelligent, and suddenly men like me would not be the most powerful entities in the world, and that would affect my business.”

Great interview with @Mer__edith by @wilf
https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

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Show threadFeralRobotsMay 7, 2023
@timnitGebru @Mer__edith @wilf
Aside: At some point will people stop calling it "resignation" & start calling it "retirement"? He's 75, for pity's sake.
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵May 7, 2023
@timnitGebru @Mer__edith @wilf Or perhaps, "if folks get carried away and start using the stuff I'm pitching as magic beans to cut corners everywhere, systems are going to break horribly and the money spigot may be abruptly shut off."
Show thread*_jߍyropeMay 7, 2023
@Timnit Gebru (she/her) I don't have "millions of dollars". I'm favoring AI in publicly financed environments to make the good available as a more profoundly developped and free service to citizens anywhere.

Much of the rest seems profit-hype discussion, inventing new products for the sake of maximizing investment, and very costly digging in the dark for that purpose.

Those funds are needed elsewhere for essential human needs.
Think food, housing, education.
Timnit Gebru (she/her). (@[email protected])

4.86K Posts, 483 Following, 34.8K Followers · Personal Account. 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: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria

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Show threadJudeMay 7, 2023
@timnitGebru @Mer__edith @wilf This and Ted Chiang’s may 4 2023 at newyorker.com