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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction.bsky.social
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Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht

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Taylor Young @taylorcyoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I say again, what could possibly go wrong.
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
W/ my colleague Martha Kenney, new piece on what we call “AI centrism” — a position that claims to split the difference btw genAI boosterism and detraction, but still leads to its acceptance and use. E.g.: - “We will use AI ethically/responsibly/thoughtfully” - “We will keep a human in the loop”
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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I appreciate the work of @heavyredaction.bsky.social, who is mentioned in the article! There is no justification for this level of spending on AI at a time of austerity and department closures. A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Big ups also to "the Marthas" - @heavyredaction.bsky.social, Martha Kenney - and all the honorary Marthas who've been standing up to to the system. #JeSuisMartha @carmendarlene.bsky.social #NousSommesTousMarthas
Text: heir union colleagues have begun referring to them simply as “the Marthas.” (“You don’t need to be named Martha to be a Martha,” Kenney told me. “We take all comers.”) “We feel like a guinea pig for what A.I. is going to do to higher education,” Kenney said. The embrace of generative A.I., she went on, is “a step down the path of creating a really different kind of future citizen and worker.” This kind of student would be intellectually passive, less likely to see themselves as agents of their own lives.
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This Monday 4/7; all are welcome!
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Event Weds 4/8, “Innovation or Extraction?: AI and the Future of Public Education,” San Francisco State University. With @alexhanna.bsky.social, author of “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want,” and an op-ed workshop by @scholars.org. All welcome, RSVP below!
Innovation or Extraction? AI and the Future of Public Education
Weds 4/8, 5-7:15 PM, LIB 121, San Francisco State

Our event brings together critical perspectives on how artificial intelligence is reshaping schools and universities. Under the guise of enhanced productivity and innovation, the CSU has partnered with several AI companies, including OpenAI, currently working with the Department of War. Our discussion will feature Alex Hanna, co-author of The AI Con, who will engage with the role of AI and its unintended—or intended—consequences, such as the intensification of labor precarity, privatization, the enabling of war and violence, as well as data and ecological extraction in the classroom and beyond.

Speakers: Alex Hanna, Ph.D., Mandana Mohsenzadegan

More information and a link to register: https://scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/bayareaopedai
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 26/03/2026
Nestled on the Gulf of Mexico shore in #Texas, the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge is home to some of the country's most critically #EndangeredSpecies. But Fish and Wildlife is considering handing over 712 acres of this precious refuge to #SpaceX. Take a stand for #PublicLands ⬇️
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Don't Give SpaceX This Wildlife Refuge
Help protect ocelots, piping plovers, and other Texas wildlife from a corporate land grab.
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We are stepping up the fight over AI in the Cal State University system. Details here on our faculty union’s efforts to combat the CSU’s $17M contract with OpenAI. Special thanks to the legal team at @cfaunited.bsky.social for sharing information about the Unfair Practice Charges they have brought.
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Excited to have this piece — a deep dive into the California Faculty Association’s fight against ChatGPT at Cal State — in the @aaup.org’s publication @academemagazine.bsky.social. See the whole series out today, “Organizing Against the Machines.” www.aaup.org/cal-states-w...
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Cal State’s War on Working-Class Education
The surprise rollout of ChatGPT Edu across the California State University system has provoked outrage and opposition.
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Really appreciated getting to speak with @millsrodrigo.bsky.social at Tech Policy Press for this piece about the mass introduction of generative AI into the Cal State system. Some wonderful colleagues quoted here, from the CSU and beyond
Tech Policy Press 3/18/26: "How Cal State Became Ground Zero for the Fight over AI in Higher Education"
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...
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CU signs $2M OpenAI deal for ChatGPT access
Students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu starting in March under a three-year deal.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Critical Perspectives on “AI” in Education – a free, one-hour, Zoom interview series starting Monday Feb 17, 12 noon PT / 3pm ET / 8pm GMT, continuing Tuesdays from Feb 23. Come and chat with us! 🧵 🧪💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #education #politics #AcademicSky #technology #AI 1/
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Critical Perspectives on "AI" in Education
French Postcard, ca. 1901, "In the Year 2000," Wikimedia
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our petition asking the CSU chancellor to “Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans” is very close to 2,000 signatures—many irate faculty, students, alums. We‘ll be sending signatures and comments to the administration on *Monday.* Last call, & anyone can sign! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.
In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...
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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
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Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
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AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database
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Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Loren Taylor & his white big business friends formed a fake group that KTVU immediately started partnering with weeks after it was founded and visibly had no membership. Still doing it too. The Fox takeover of that station was the death knell of independent journalism in Oakland
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Alex Pretti & Renee Good were killed by members of DHS tactical teams. I went long on ICE/CBP's 'Special Response Team' & BORTAC, Homeland Security's paramilitary units that are now using SOCOM-style tactics & firepower for civil immigration enforcement & protest suppression
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The International AI Safety Report is clear-eyed: threats from AI are growing--to rights, autonomy, health, cybersecurity, and planetary well-being. The evidence is stronger than ever. Commitments from industry and government to the safe, trustworthy, and responsible use of AI are urgently needed.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the U.S. for two decades. He had a single misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.
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Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story.
"I was there. I saw everything," Jose Huerta Chuma, who remains in hiding, told CBS News.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
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7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI
Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.
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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Colleagues, especially those in CA and in the California State University, please sign this petition. I know you've all heard the bleak news stories about our AI debacle (because people are always bringing the stories to me)!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Quite extraordinary how little discussion of risks universities are engaging in before they sign all their staff and students up for new AI tools, at extraordinary cost, Given universities' known deficits and repeated claims of financial exigency, this is surely problematic.
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A 2026 Guide to ChatGPT Risks | Concentric AI
Refreshed and updated January 7th, 2026.
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Finch in Al-boo!-querque 👻 @finchinabq.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Jesus, $16.9 million could pay for like 250 adjunct professors. (This is a comment about how poorly adjunct professors are paid.)
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
My late dad taught history at Cal State Fullerton for over 35 years, I asked ChatGPT about a Harlan Ellison short story and the AI claimed Ellison never wrote it. I had the book open to the story right in front of me.
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Carrie @carrieat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
reminds me of the day I walked into class about 18 months ago & learned that the university where I was teaching had just launched its own gen AI platform & was encouraging students to use it. The call is definitely coming from inside the house
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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I literally want to cry at the thought of all the brilliant human teachers they could have hired with that money. Instead they set it on fire.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/02/2026
I’m sorry, this is so funny
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March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7
Stand up for the entrepreneurs, innovators, and risk-takers who build our economy. February 7, 2026.
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pamadams.bsky.social @pamadams.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
No ChatGPT at CSU!
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
NEW ‼️ Judge has ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Ramos 🙏🏼
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-… for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
Bold text reading 'CANCEL CHATGPT EDU.' with a red banner stating 'INVEST IN HUMANS' over a dark board background.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
genuinely stunning image

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Beautiful people, beautiful city I need everyone to understand that this is happening everywhere, all the time here. It's not isolated. Entire communities plan their days around helping neighbors who need assistance. There's no central organizing for it all; it's hundreds of independent networks.
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Mark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m here at Fruitvale Station in Oakland for a solidarity rally with Minneapolis
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Minneapolis: "At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “'I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped...Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.'”
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/01/2026
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Breaking: jury finds Chicago resident Juan Espinoza Martinez NOT GUILTY of placing a hit on Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino.
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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Sharing to #SciArt feed for all the CSUMB Science Illustration alumni
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Suspended in Gaffa @leegilmore.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Signal boosting this especially for my CSU colleagues (& Californians), but also for anyone who wants to throw a few grains of sand into the gears of generative AI. The California State University's contract with OpenAI is up for renewal in June and that needs to be the end of it.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang doesn't want "well-respected people" like PhDs and CEOs to criticize AI, especially in front of governments.

He labeled concerns about the AI technology a "doomer narrative": https://80.lv/articles/nvidia-ceo-doesn-t-want-well-respected-people-to-criticize-ai

The screenshot includes a color photo of Jensen Huang wearing his typical leather jacket. He is an Asian man, with glasses and silver hair. His overall affect is smug.
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