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Here is some interesting insight into how that narrative is spun: cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... >>
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Timnit Gebru
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Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ wired.com
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype technologyreview.com
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai
politico.com
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect prospect.org
politico.com
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity machinelearning.apple.com
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say scientificamerican.com
Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain ai-killchain.airwars.org
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"if you’re not worried about police brutality, or floods, or warfare—things that can actually kill you—then you can obsess over the machine-god." I said what I said. https://t.co/B3WskcMaTL
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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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‘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 @timnit…
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- Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender argue the summer's AI 'breakthroughs' on hacking, math and superintelligence fall apart under expert scrutiny.
- They cite cybersecurity experts recasting the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident as OpenAI negligence rather than models 'gone rogue.'
- NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster is quoted saying OpenAI 'stole' work, undercutting claims about the Astra math result.
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One *cannot* just move on from the Anthropic question when the very substance of this encyclical letter was written with the tech industry talking point. One simple example below: 👇 www.vatican.va/content/leo-....
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- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
- The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Loved this takeaway from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app!🔥 airesistlist.org
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- Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
- The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
- Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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@LongAsUCan2 @jimstewartson Yes, the mathematicians are on point here: https://t.co/ZEuScJCOpR
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- The Leiden Declaration, released June 2, 2026, warns AI threatens proof integrity, attribution, and peer review in mathematics.
- Over 2,654 signatories including Fields Medal winner Terence Tao have endorsed the community-initiated declaration.
- The International Mathematical Union backs the declaration, which makes separate recommendations to researchers, publishers, policymakers, and AI developers.
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Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...
Guys but it's the fictional machine god that needs to be regulated and that we should worry about. https://t.co/1p1sa72XFI
Remember the time around 2023 when we thought that the TESCREAL bozos were gonna continue to get exposed because there was a brief period where mainstream journalists were doing their jobs? But only because SBF committed one of the biggest frauds in US history? www.politico.co…
@platypii @kortizart @NateSilver538 @GaryMarcus Or, you can read peer reviewed papers, but maybe, like Nate Silver, you depend on "thousands of less wrong posts" for your "evidence" 😂 That could also be why press releases are more convincing than scientific experiments to y'al…
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- Apple researchers report frontier reasoning models — including Claude 3.7 Sonnet thinking, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini — suffer a complete accuracy collapse past a puzzle-complexity threshold.
- The paper identifies three regimes: standard LLMs beat reasoning models on easy tasks, reasoning models win in the middle, both fail on the hardest.
- Models' reasoning effort peaks then declines with rising complexity even when token budget remains, suggesting a scaling ceiling on chain-of-thought.
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@khanthesalah The things I'm reading are things like https://t.co/yxsbD2MHR2
I was thinking about things like @HeidyKhlaaf's work https://t.co/0Nnpm89kKl
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The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.
I had a thread about @sanders.senate.gov & Max Tegmark before seeing this one. Yudkowsky is an even more overt eugenicist, you don't have to do any digging to see that. He also has ZERO expertise in "AI" except for being a self described "genius" cult leader who wrote a Harry Potter fanfic.
I'm going to sleep now & someone wake me up when LessWrong isn't being cited in the mainstream. Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
Bernie hasn't tried this on here yet but here he is doing free marketing for OpenAI. He has been captured by the worst people in AI for a few years now and has been parroting company hype talking points instead of guarding against them. It’s like the public is being assaulted from all sides.
You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.
This man objected to my warning that apocalyptic "AI extinction" talk is corporate ploy for regulatory capture, marketing, and side stepping accountability. He said he left DeepMind, like the Anthropic "whistleblower." So lets have a brief history lesson about DeepMind's origins in doomer cults🧵
I have started being in the habit of asking who their other guests are & sometimes declining press requests after finding because the outlets I'd expect to be politically aligned with have been platforming literal eugenicist cultists to talk about "AI" and asking me to appear with or after them.
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