@timnitgebru
Author: Deep Unlearning (preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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AI Now Institute says it and @MorePerfectUS planned to bring together organizers, policymakers, labor leaders, journalists and artists.
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A critic alleges deaths from data-center pollution, school bombings using AI software and massive theft are treated as acceptable costs.
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Politico reports Anthropic wrote the proposed bill itself; the draft would preempt some state AI safety laws.
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A user argues the phrase reflects religious claims, pointing to a list of ‘prophecies’ and highlighting ‘hacking attempts.’
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A user says she finds herself on the same side as Yann LeCun and David Sacks, without naming the issue.
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AI Now Institute announced Mamdani’s appearance and invited people to get tickets or sign up for the livestream.
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A user calls the essay “similarly spot on” to Jordan’s interview remarks about hysteria around “fictional machine gods.”
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The Bulletin argues there’s no clear path showing today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence.
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A post jokes that agents with full computer access can modify files; another user quotes it with an apocalypse metaphor.
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A user shared the statement; another criticized people they said were attacking it while defending OpenAI.
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One post argues too many academics want to normalize people it calls 'race scientists' to avoid being labeled 'unreasonable.'
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A poster says they expected a “tour de force” when Pinker's article appeared, and Scott's reply did not disappoint.
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A critic cites a 2018 prediction about radiologists and recalls a machine-learning joke aimed at Hinton.
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A quote post mocks people its author portrays as treating artificial general intelligence like a god while discussing “science denialism.”
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One user cites the model’s reflective behavior; another claims it behaves the same across all instances.
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A post says Hinton quotes longtermists it describes as believing there is a moral obligation to create a superior post-human species.
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Geoffrey Hinton says many leading researchers now think an intelligence explosion caused by recursive self-improvement may happen quite soon.
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A commentator argues that assumed duties toward conscious AI make it harder to examine whether AI is conscious.
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A user says people formerly in what she calls “TESCREAL cults” use the acronym to describe experiences of assault.
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Gebru alleges that attacks on her and her work come from what she calls the “TESCREAL cult advised left.”