Timnit Gebru (she/her).May 24, 2023
Oh hey! I just had my first social media post to be taken down from any platform ever, on LinkedIn. Yay! My post about the flabbergasting amounts of racism in "AI" violated their "professional" community guideline. Indeed. Its quite professional to be as racist as possible, but not professional to call it out. Totally makes sense.
Show threadCorbin
@timnitGebru My invites are disabled, but somebody should get you a Lobsters account. We can openly call out ethnonationalism and bias in AI, and the admins thank us for it. https://lobste.rs/s/jf3in4/ai_ethics_impossibility_theorems#c_9hp8br is one of my finer moments, as an example.
AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs | Lobsters

May 24, 2023 at 4:55pmWeb
Show threadmempkoMay 24, 2023

@corbin @timnitGebru I can offer an invite to lobsters. DM me here and I can send an invite via email.

However, lobsters has swung away from talking about the intersection of social issues and tech in the last couple of years, making it both boring and irrelevant to me at least. Thank you for keeping up the fight there!

Show threadmempkoMay 24, 2023
@corbin @timnitGebru IMO, the best large organization that is looking at social issues and tech is the ACM (not without problems). I highly recommend tech folks get a membership. Also a great resource in general.
Show threadCorbinMay 25, 2023
@mempko Sadly, I can't endorse the ACM's code of ethics; it protects copyright, but we ought to destroy copyright. Nonetheless, I agree; folks should definitely participate in their local ACM chapters.
Show threadmempkoMay 25, 2023
@corbin I totally agree on the copyright point. Copyright was designed to exploit creators.