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   Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 12:07:08 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

   This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health care to god knows what.

   These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance reviews for "not using AI."

   These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."

   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 12:07:03 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     in reply to

     @timnitGebru I think this is relevant to these questions, albeit handles them on a different level:
     https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367

     > Someone still has to reread, compare, test, contextualize, and sometimes rewrite. And if no one seriously takes on that work, the cost does not disappear. It reappears later in the form of errors, urgent fixes, loss of trust, and eventually litigation. What is presented as a productivity gain is often just an accounting displacement.

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 12:07:04 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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     That it will just take a different form, which is fine?

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 12:07:05 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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     I'm not even talking about the data stealing, exploitation, environmental pillaging, pollution, environmental racism etc.

     I'm talking about the way people use the tools. Like what do advocates of using these tools say will happen to software engineering in the future? That it just won't need to exist because everyone will be able to create software using these tools?

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 12:07:06 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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     I appreciated this article by @mttaggart
     infosec.exchange.

     I get the temptation especially in this world we're all living in where you have to produce something super fast all the time.

     But my question is, what are people's arguments for how functioning software can be created with these tools?

     What about new architectures, new ways of thinking, new programming languages, etc? Who will create those?

     https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/