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Timnit Gebru (she/her). · 5w
When physicist & best selling author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein sent me this declaration on AI written & signed by a bunch of mathematicians, I was initially super skeptical because I had seen a whole b...
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Given another round of hype from these companies, now is as good a day as any to share. Some points from the document:

➡️ “Mathematical arguments are regarded as transparent and subject to independent verification. They may be extremely long or difficult, but in principle no proprietary knowledge or equipment should be required to understand them.”

➡️“Mathematicians share a concern for proper evaluation of mathematical work relative to shared standards of depth, difficulty, and significance.”
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). · 5w
➡️“Technologies which affect the way in which mathematics is practiced may disturb the current system of incentives. The use of artificial intelligence — and thus also the sort of problems which it can address — may become incentivized for its own sake, disrupting our mechanisms for hiring...