Timnit Gebru
Founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute
Articles & links
"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
"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...
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.
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.