Notices by Wilfred Chan (wilf@social.coop)

Where was “AI Godfather” Geoffrey Hinton when Google fired Timnit Gebru and other experts who sounded the alarm about AI’s impacts on marginalized people?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90891995/i-didnt-see-him-show-up-ex-googlers-blast-ai-godfather-geoffrey-hintons-silence-on-fired-ai-experts

My full interview with @Mer__edith about what's missing from Geoffrey Hinton's media tour, how AI doomers put us into a "trance," and why labor organizing is still the most powerful check against Big Tech:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

Working on another story for The Guardian about Mastodon, a kind of update to my last one (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/01/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk-takeover).

Hoping to speak to users / admins about how your experience has been over the last few months here. Still loving it? Less excited? Something else? DM me or email wilfredwchan@gmail.com