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
| Work website | https://www.dair-institute.org/ |
| https://twitter.com/timnitGebru | |
| Linked In | https://www.linkedin.com/in/timnit-gebru-7b3b407/ |
🔇🔇🔇 Join us on for the virtual launch of @emilymbender & @alex's book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.
⏰Thursday May 8th @ 2pm PT
📕 Preorder the book @ https://thecon.ai.
▶️ Register for the event @ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ai-con-virtual-book-launch-tickets-1330295943979?aff=oddtdtcreator
Come for the clear description of what's behind the chatbot interface, stay for the :chef's kiss: footnotes. (Always read the footnotes!)
For fans of MAIHT3k, here's a video of an event from January where I was asked to reflect on the podcast & how we make it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJAgwGu-c0
Unfortunately, @alex couldn't join, so there was just me.
Great overview and advice in this article by Dia Kayyali for @techpolicypress
Don’t let it become normal
Petra Molnar pointed out in her comments, "Technology is ultimately about power – and reinscribing the power differentials which are inherent in our world generally and in the immigration system specifically.”
https://www.techpolicy.press/ask-the-experts-ai-surveillance-and-us-immigration-enforcement/[
Stop saying “post covid”. People are confusing the end of the public health emergency with the end of the pandemic.
The pandemic is not over. “During COVID” is now.
If we really want to end it, we need to first acknowledge this fact. Pandemics don’t end just because we’re done with them. Threats don’t disappear because you miss your ‘normal’.
We need to adopt better masking, clean air and ventilation and push for more effective treatments and vaccines.
The oldest surviving Ethiopian manuscripts are the Garima Gospels, a set of two illuminated texts, brightly decorated with purple, green and blue paintings and written in about AD500. Today they are closely guarded by monks at the Abba Garima monastery in a remote part of Ethiopia’s mountainous Tigray region. Dozens of other churches in northern Ethiopia, many of them cut into rocky mountainsides, hold manuscripts that are also more than 1,000 years old.
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