Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

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Critic with public evidence across Policy & governance.

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Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social

Listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social when she writes that AI is "the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation” - and then teach about and against the technologies with the help of the boo…

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@jelenawoehr.bsky.social

the real proof that companies use AI to break labor power, not because it can actually replace human work: OpenAI hires entire humans to prevent other humans from using AI to train the AI, and those humans can get fired for using AI to stop the other humans from using AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI 404media.co
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  • Contractors hired to rate ChatGPT responses are being fired for using AI tools including LLMs, GPTZero, Grammarly, and AI translation services.
  • OpenAI's Project Lily has hundreds of contractors read real user prompts and rate responses for sycophancy or anthropomorphizing.
  • Reviewers flag repetitive words, AI-style punctuation like em dashes, and unusually fast completion as tells for AI use.
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@wired.com

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ wired.com
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  • Timnit Gebru told WIRED's Lauren Goode that the 'machine-god narrative' behind AI extinction talk is 'meant to distract us' from present harms.
  • Her list of what she calls truly existential is concrete: autonomous weapons in warfare, data-centre climate damage, and bosses using AI to justify layoffs.
  • Asked to describe step by step how AI would push humanity to extinction, Gebru answered, 'I can't really envision it.'
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social

"We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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@annmlipton.bsky.social

seriously, SpaceX showed the way and Anthropic is following it. Selective leaks of the "confidential" prospectus to gin up enthusiasm for the IPO, which is wildly illegal under the federal securities laws but no one cares about that anymore www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

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@evangreer.bsky.social

With all the doom and gloom headlines about AI apocalypse, I wrote for the NYT about something hopeful: the successful and growing rebellion against Flock cameras. People do care about their privacy, it turns out. You just have to show them a viable path to reclaim it. (Gift l…

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@roopikarisam.bsky.social

Between the FB Bond villain’s essay on the future of AI and the OpenAI piece on task crossover (linked below), it’s clear they see deprofessionalization as a good thing. Of course they do: devalue knowledge and labor, then profit. Superyachts don’t pay for themselves. about.fb…

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@carlbergstrom.com

Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.

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Recent commentary

I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips.

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I will not link to it, but @theatlantic.com has published a transparent piece of AI cult propaganda, authored by a self-described “AI safety and policy” researcher who is funded by Coefficient Giving. Shameful.

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The louder we get about resisting the AI industry's mass immiseration project, the more industry mouthpieces like the Chamber of "Progress" will try to convince the Democratic party to avoid aligning itself with voter sentiment. Case in point: this drivel from the "Blue Horizon Project"

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Before I quit my last job, I told a colleague that I hated AI (really, the AI industry and its vile political project) more and more with each passing day. This is still the case.

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Great discussions at this conference on “Impacts of AI on multilingual and multiracial democracy.” But I am disappointed - though not surprised - that the AI industry’s role in dismantling US democracy by rolling back decades of work to make it truly multilingual and multiracial - wasn’t mentioned.

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