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Reaction converging Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender Concern & critique · 6 attributable reactions Reaction converging Openai warnings security Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Live tension Meta ai data centers taxes Concern & critique · 6 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 17d ago
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Gebru Bender AI war risk essay

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

11 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Tamara Kneese Martin Trapp Karen Gregory The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute +3
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

4 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“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 hum…”

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.…”

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Emily M. Bender: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Luke Stark: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Emily M. Bender: Yes we mention this in the article.
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Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
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essay how to talk AI

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13 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +5

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Primary source buttondown.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 19d ago

Openai warnings security

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Mark Riedl Eryk Salvaggio Dylan Freedman Sheera Frenkel Dare Obasanjo Hagen Blix John Herrman Jeffrey Vagle
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Signal 19d ago
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Meta ai data centers taxes

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill Damien Williams Sarah T Roberts, PhD Michael Zimmer Social Media Lab Jon Keegan Jeffrey Vagle +1
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI business Analysis 10d ago
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Doctorow kids surveillance paradox essay

Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Then there's the "age verification" laws proliferating all around the world. Remember, there's no such thing as "age verification," there's only "spying on everyone, all the time, to figure out who the kids are": pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...”

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2 experts · 4 posts · 14d ago
Andrew Selbst Jeffrey Vagle
Andrew Selbst: As a parent of young kids I’m shocked how often this is stated as a use case for AI. It says to me that while surely patriarchy is part of it, it’s evident that lots of AI folks don’t understand th…
Andrew Selbst: FWIW, the first time I heard this was from a woman excitedly doing a sales pitch. I think the link between patriarchy and capitalism exists, but in this case it might be operating at a higher level…
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