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Timnit Gebru

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app
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Personal Account Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at shorturl.at/sCdjl) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (dair-institute.org)

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 35m
I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 55m
This 👇
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1h
Still true. Time to pre-order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app's new book, DEEP UNLEARNING: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 6h
Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the Right Livelihood Award! @jalilahaider.bsky.social @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Rural Women’s Assembly Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 20h
This is really fantastic and more than well-deserved - congratulations, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, you're an inspiration!
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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 21h
What happens when an AI researcher challenges the direction of the industry from within? Meet @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates — a pioneering researcher confronting concentrated power in artificial intelligence. rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 21h
Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?
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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Australians, go check out the 74 entities watching a single Australian target.
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Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A reminder that this exists and that it is, verifiably, very cool: www.surveillancewatch.io
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Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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arthaus @arthouse06.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
invaluable website for those of us affected by AI/tech surveillance in r/t (+realizing how metastasizing VC funding is within surveillance~globally)
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dirk.f5r @dirk-f5r.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yet another signal that the world is lost without strong women. Congratulations and well done!
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Silke Gut. Ja. @paulinepauline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
❤️❤️❤️
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
Oh look. More things that makes sense happening in these United States.
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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
@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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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ms. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app calls the doomtrolling bluff and practically sends an "OK doomer".
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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...
technologyreview.com
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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lunarshocked.bsky.social @lunarshocked.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I actually love how Trump makes it explicit: apnews.com/article/trum... Nooooo if White people did it it's not "artificial". It's super. It's supreme. (Supreme was also in the poll but maybe that was too on the nose for them)
apnews.com
US diplomats told to say ‘super intelligence’ — not ‘artificial intelligence' — after Trump's call
The State Department is ordering diplomats in its international organizations bureau to use the term “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence” in all communications following President...
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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's media capture. nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...
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Media Capture Watch — Mapping Big Tech's Influence on Journalism
An interactive investigation into Big Tech and AI companies' funding relationships with journalism and media organizations.
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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:
Fome @at_fome

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
technologyreview.com
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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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cool new piece by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social ⬇️ www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
technologyreview.com
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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Norman J Fischer @smellsfischy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1... pretty succinct account of the current state of AI Bubble desperation by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social
technologyreview.com
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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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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