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Timnit Gebru (she/her).
@Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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Author: Deep Unlearning, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (you can now preorder at https://t.co/xlTTJu4wSs)

Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/)

Before that, fired from Google in 2020 for writing about the dangers of large language models and raising awareness about workplace discrimination (https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/)

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While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael Jordan and his interview calling this ridiculousness around fictional machine gods for what it is, let me share with you this essay he wrote in 2018 where he was similarly spot on.

With the success of deep learning, the deep learning philosophy has also permeated machine learning, which has little respect for actual engineering practices.

https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7
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"I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources. The people in this story are not a secret society coordinating over dinner. They are a social scene: overlapping friendship groups, funding relationships, and sexual and romantic relationships, all of it threaded through the institutions asking you to trust them about AI regulation."

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse
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Like Stochastic Parrots, TESCREAL is also an acronym they hate and are talking about.

In the comments agreeing with a poster about TESCREAL, was Joscha Bach saying that the acronym basically accuses everyone we disagree with of being Hitler.

Funny he brings up hitler. "Very blue eyed indeed."

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Everyone needs to read this. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing.

🔇 🔇 🔇 Reminder: These are the people advising Bernie Sanders on "AI" policy.

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Read this, and now remember that these are the people all over the news talking about the fictional "existential risks" of AI.

These are the people all over the UN, all over governments, including so-called "left" in the US.

These cults are the ones Bernie Sanders calls the world's "leading AI experts."

****trigger warning**** sexual violence.
https://theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effective-altruism-kids-arent?r=8qt9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web