Speaking of Shane Legg, co-founder & "chief AGI scientist" 🙄 of Deepmind, here is this gem he co-authored in 2007 titled "Universal Intelligence" where he wonders, as one does,
"Are men on average more intelligent than women? Are white people smarter than black people?" 🤔 Questions white men like to "ask"
They continue.
"determining whether a test, perhaps quite unintentionally, is partly a reflection of the race, gender, culture or social class of its creator is a subtle, complex & often politically charged issue...many have concluded that it is wise to stay well clear of this topic"
Ahh but not them! Our gallant "researchers" will not steer clear of this topic. They continue,
"In reality the situation is not as bad as it is sometimes made out to be."
Tell me more!
"Although the details of the definition are debated, in broad terms a fair degree of consensus about the scientific definition of intelligence and how to measure it has been achieved."
Smdh. I don't even want to see their citations or read the footnotes as Emily M. Bender says.
@timnitGebru 🙃
It is unfortunately a sign of how widespread these views are that they felt like it made sense to cite it — but I guess two years after the Larry Summers controversy, people still felt empowered to repeat scientific racism.
Kinda scared what would arise from a bibliometric analysis of scientific racism on CS arxiv.
Should do a similar analysis on crank magnet evil twin site vixra.org as well, for comparison.
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
J. Nathan Matias 🦣
Jonathan Hendry