Notices by Timnit Gebru (she/her). (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)

RE: https://dair-community.social/@milamiceli/116805551053812745

So well deserved. Congratulations to the team 🎉 🎉 🎉

Weekend present for me, Stanford grads walking out of Sundar Pichai's speech chanting "free Palestine." And old guard venture capitalists like Vinod Khosla have the audacity to call these students "selfish" lol.

"Why don't they eat cake" level of out of toughness combined with the evil.

Another great piece by @CyberneticForests

"Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and black boxes are woven into the stories they tell."

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-black-box-myth-what-the-industry-pretends-not-to-know-about-ai/

Instead they partnered with Anthropic, like partnering with the Sackler family to discuss the harms of oxy.

Now if the Vatican had partnered with the exploited data workers fighting for their rights, the people whose water is polluted fighting data centers, or the many other victims around the world, I would have written whatever they wrote.

If the Vatican told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs and lying about product "capabilities, " then sure I would have read whatever they wrote.

Am I going to read this Anthropic + Vatican document?

No I'm not. All I know is that the Vatican is doing Vatican washing, just like green washing. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised as they have a venture capital arm that invests in Silicon Valley companies 🤷🏼

This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of someone who experienced ChatGPT enabled psychosis.

I'll also note how the TESCREAL framing of "alignment" is basically marketing for the companies, which is why it is pushed by the same funders of the AI companies in the name of "AI safety."

https://joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

“According to my understanding, the girls you were involved with were old enough to know what they were doing, so society really has no ‘moral right’ to lock you up,” Goertzel wrote to Epstein. “This is a fucked-up society we live in. But past ones have really been no better — the fault is really w/ the human brain architecture, which is precisely what I’m aiming to supercede in my AGI work.”

Exhibit 1m of major TESCREAL figures being far worse than whatever we said.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/blue-eyes-epstein-artificial-intelligence-eugenics-silicon-valley/

"The effective altruism movement, if we want to be gracious in calling it a “movement”, is a rabbit hole of reciprocal wealth. A lot of billionaires unload money into its related NPOs, and oddly enough, that money often goes into buying NVIDIA GPUs for an altruistic AI project,..."

Seems like random"data centers don't consume water" dude who went viral because of the effective altruists money has a new victim.

Glad the victim wrote about it though.

https://www.bennjordan.com/blog/the-altruists-have-arrived

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We introduce a limited podcast series highlighting Sudanese refugees, discuss tools like Surveillance Watch, and show how immigrant communities are supporting each other through Respond Crisis Translation.

We end with a creative workshop to remind us that the future is ours to shape.

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RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116366642191544466

Friends, this virtual event is on Friday. You'll hear from truly extraordinary people. Don't forget to register if interested, at, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887?aff=oddtdtcreator

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RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.

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

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/

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?

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

Thank you for the shoutout Valerie Veatch!

In this interview with The Maybe, she cited the Stochastic Parrots and TESCREAL papers as key sources for the creation of her film, Ghost in the Machine ❤️

https://csm.transistor.fm/episodes/fantasy-factory-one-filmmakers-fight-against-ai-w-valerie-veatch

You can also read @emilymbender comparison of this documentary with the other one, (The AI Doc which I DON"T recommend) on https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/.

"Galton and his fellow eugenicist / protegee Karl Pearson were not directly involved in the development of early computational machines. But Galton’s foundational work with multidimensional modeling — a technique he used while measuring the attractiveness of African and European women — shaped Pearson’s thinking as he developed statistical tools like logistic regression, which is one of the fundamental components of modern machine learning."

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview

I don't remember who said this, but it's like telling you to buy Camels instead of Marlboros while claiming to fight tobacco companies. If any politician parrots talking points of a CEO on a funding round, even on the harms of AI systems, you should be worried.

Remember when Altman schmoozed them and newspapers had headlines of him "begging" to be regulated and hailing him as an Oppenheimer figure who is so worried about his own creation 🙄?

That was just last year! https://time.com/7267797/ai-leaders-oppenheimer-moment-musk-altman/.