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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 3h

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

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Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7h

Oh look. More things that makes sense happening in these United States.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 8h

This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app does a good job puncturing some of this BS. I think the private sector often profits off of just this sort of move: hiding ‘expertise’ behind proprietary doors and then making public claims that can’t be scrutinized is par for the course in business.

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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru

Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 8h

How can we build an organized force for tech justice? Oakland Tech Week is exploring the possibilities. DAIR's @timnitgebru.blacksky.app will be there in conversation with @parismarx.com and others. Event is sold out, but visit the OTW website for info on virtual options: urlvanish.com/6fe70bc9

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 7h

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app, a PhD in computer vision; Altman, a dropout funded by Musk and Thiel. One explains how llms/chatbots work; the other is part of a cult that blathers on about 'reasoning,' 'rogue AI, 'digital immortality,' and other nonsense. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Coxon was suddenly ALL OVER the media, it felt to many like that was because his story deserved that much interest i.e. that the media was doing its job informing the public of an important threat. The wall-to-wall media coverage wasn't organic though, it was orchestrated: >>

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Kerstin Sell @kerstinsell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/2 I was wondering / confused about the apocalyptic scenarios industry leaders have been sharing lately & about the accompanying calls for regulation... this is spot on:

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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally got to the #vibecheckpod episode with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app about the perils of AI. Whew what a fantastic and succinct conversation. If you don’t understand (yet) how this project is tied up eugenics, give it a listen. And: we still have a choice. WE have agency. Use it.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend dollars 😂 www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...

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The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions

The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I've said in many interviews recently, the AI industry needs to be regulated the same way we do other industries that make products with potential harms. The sensationalism is a distraction. sfstandard.com/2026/09/21/e...

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So, is AI going to kill us? 11 experts, 11 answers.

Confused by the competing theories about AI’s threat to humanity? We asked accelerationists, doomers, protesters, and a state senator what needs to happen next.

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2. "Going rogue" is sensationalistic. Products of ALL kinds do unexpected things that we need safeguards to prevent. Yes, AI agents running amok IS dangerous. So are industrial power tools. Hence OSHA and stringent safety training and protocols to use them.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guys, no one doubts that Tesla is responsible if its cars roll down hills and crash into people (or anything else). The problem is that until VERY recently, it was not accepted that it was possible for something on wheels that we forgot to put breaks on to travel downhill at high speed.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More on this later, but it feels like a community putting a lot of effort into creating a cognitive callus against the threat of work that undermines a chunk of their world-view: bsky.app/profile/emil... >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There seems to be an enormous discourse going on in EA circles (some of which spills over where I can see it), focused on the phrase "stochastic parrots" in which Timnit, Meg and I are effectively treated as memes. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a thread about erasure of women's expertise and work in this area. As often happens, erasure comes together with overexposure. >>

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The illusion of speed and urgency promulgated by the tech companies is also a ploy to misdirect both policymakers and the public. Unfortunately, it sometimes works." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app & @emilymbender.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most of this Silicon Valley network in AI is also Epstein's network. It's not just women and girls who are groomed and abused by these men. Perhaps a death and sex cult shouldn't be left to self regulate tech products. We need accountability and justice.

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to this pre-screening panel at #OaklandTechWeek on Tuesday 9/29. DAIR's @alexhanna.bsky.social will be in good company! Register at the Oakland Tech week website: oaklandtechweek.com/sessions/gho... @mediajustice.bsky.social @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social

a black graphic with neon green text reading "Building Beyond Big Tech: Screening Announcement: New Parkway Theater, Tuesday September 29th, 5:30-8:30PM, Panel 6PM, Film starts 6:30PM. Questions? Contact eli@mediajustice.com.

A black graphic with neon green text reads "Building Beyond Big Tech: Film Panel Announcement." Under it are circular photos of four speakers. Steven Renderos, Moderator, a person with light-brown skin and a beard, Dr. Alex Hanna, a person with light brown skin in a black shirt, Thema Monroe-White, a person with dark brown skin and short black hair, and Sam Biddle, a person with light skin and short dark hair.

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z @oddbott.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

i was just thinking about this earlier today. like they dont need to be propagandizing so hard like this

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with you @democracynow.org

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Kathleen Kelly @kathleenkellymusic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's so disappointing that these folks who do much good work have been so lazy and credulous with the AI bros. As @timnitgebru.blacksky.app says in this thread, it's not like their love of eugenics is a secret. @democracynow.org do better!!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Literally the ROOT of this extinction theory is Nick Bostrom, who, in his list of 20 or so or whatever potential "existential risks," he had dysgenic pressures, along with so-called super intelligence. This is public information, he wrote it in a "paper."

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CultureIsFirst @cultureisfirst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everything hysterical Malo Bourgon has said in response to Amy’s question on how would it extinct humans, replace the term “humans” with “white race” and you hear the White Supremacist rant. 🚩Anti- #AI people should think hard what ideologies they’re feeding.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees. Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵 ⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom. ✴️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

flyer for DAIR virtual event on October 1, 2026 from 6-8PM CET. Join DAIR as we commemorate the 2013 Lampedusa tragedy and ask, "What would it take for technology to protect people on the move, rather than deepen the risks they already face?

Meron Estefanos, Dr. Selam Kidane, Dr. Omer Shatz, Dr. Hyab Yoahnnes

Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN_u2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather because the hype DDOS strikes daily 🙄 As for the whole CRISPR Dario "discovery" announcement:

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I work in CRISPR discovery research. This is one of the most exaggerated nothing-burgers ever and would be laughed out of the room if a human scientist attempted to publish something like this. (cont.)

quote tweeting Min Choi (@minchoi)

This is wild.

Claude just found something humans missed.

It spotted a hidden repeat pattern in raw bacteriophage DNA...

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. …they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans.’ By @emilymbender.bsky.social and @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 24/09/2026

If you have concerns about AI, read this The AI Con. @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social know what's going on behind the sparkles and magic wands. #BookSky app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1520...

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Review by resing - The AI Con

If you have concerns about AI, read this book. Emily Bender and Alex Hana know what's going on...

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"According to the AI industry, we should be more worried about a fictional machine god than about the climate catastrophe these data centers exacerbate, the asthma suffered by those living near them, the rising electricity bills of the public subsidizing them, or the water...[for] cooling them."

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These are the people who should be all over media, not those white boy children getting attention.

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Haben Girma @habengirma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why did I, a Deafblind person, ask for a print copy of Timnit Gebru's Book? @timnitgebru.blacksky.app I read an early accessible copy and loved it! The signed book will impress my parents — we’re all big fans of Timnit! Preorder your copy of #DeepUnlearning. simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New from me in Nature. I discuss the need to look to regulated industries on how to govern AI, and not give into AI companies' self-regulation. Those actually serious about safety and security would start by applying safety critical techniques and legislation first. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate

From aviation to banking, high-risk industries are subject to independent oversight and meaningful penalties. AI companies should be no exception.

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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 22/09/2026

What a quote by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app: "Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans."

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

When they were NOT hating on the term they were attributing it to the white men who were shitting on our paper. @emilymbender.bsky.social has a running list of the men this term was attributed to. And now they have made it a midterms talking point to argue against facts. 1/2

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that the De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies, co-edited by @ulises-mejias.bsky.social , @jasminemcnealy.com, and yours truly, is now out! 33 chapters, 50+ authors, and a wide range of perspectives on power, policy, methods, case studies, and resistance.

cover of the De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies, Edited by Ulises A. Mejias, Jasmine E. McNealy and Milagros Miceli

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reading the press about Jev and TypeSafe AI and it's wild to see ppl seemingly re-discovering what folks like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app have been saying this whole time. Yes, ML models should be well-scoped, structured, & testable! Being context-appropriate is, in fact, the most important thing!

A screenshot of text that reads: Large language models (LLMs) are designed to produce text for humans to read. When you need a model to make a judgment that your code will consume, that creates a mismatch: you are coercing a text-generation system into outputting structured decisions, then parsing the results back into something your code can depend on.

A screenshot that reads: "My experience is that Sutton’s bitter lesson is the tip of an iceberg of bitterer lessons: beyond compute and algorithms, there’s data and even picking the right task to do ML on." Below that is an image of a pink pyramid with four different vertical layers, which read top-to-bottom "algorithms", "compute", "data", and "doing the right task". Below that is the text: "The bitterest lesson in ML is that doing the right task > data > compute > algorithms."

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