Timnit Gebru

Founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute

Personal Account 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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“This idea of superintelligence or consciousness [of LLMs] is pushed by the companies building these things. So when you talk about the systems as conscious, you’re actually doing marketing for these companies.” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app nails it, in this on point opinion piec…

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"In this vapid AI booster podcast episode...Claude Code creator...is asked why his product has Claude grep around in your terminal instead of giving it a client-side knowledge graph of the codebase. He says: From @boxomcfoxo.bsky.social boxobark.ing/3mm3m6rr4l22d

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“The pope, who has been outspoken about AI’s potential to encroach on human values, will be joined in Vatican City by leading Catholic figures and Chris Olah, a co-founder of the AI company Anthropic.” 🤔

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"Anthropic’s Roman moment is a masterclass in soft-power repositioning. By embedding itself in the Vatican’s moral architecture at the precise moment it is under fire from Washington, the company is doing several things simultaneously:" decode39.com/14852/anthro...

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El Papa León XIV ha elegido a Anthropic como su interlocutor del mundo de la IA, creyendo que es más ética que OpenAI o Palantir 🤦 No sorprende que la Iglesia Católica elija a la empresa que compra libros físicos para digitalizarlos, entrenar su IA y luego DESTRUIRLOS 🤨 futuri…

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Recent commentary

Well, with this official Vatican + Anthropic mandate, I guess it was only a matter of time when the religion of effective altruism, worshipping so-called artificial general intelligence, merged with entrenched religious institutions.

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The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.

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