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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
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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

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Timnit Gebru, Eryk Salvaggio, The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“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…” evidence ↗
11 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
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

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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…”

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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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Established AI field signal Analysis 8d ago
sex AI apocalypse essay

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““Real oversight needs authority that does not depend on remaining welcome in the community it oversees: disclosure, enforceable conflicts rules, protected whistleblowers, independent replication, &…people whose concerns are more immediate than a machine apo…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Luke Stark Moa Johansson Frank Pasquale Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

““Real oversight needs authority that does not depend on remaining welcome in the community it oversees: disclosure, enforceable conflicts rules, protected whistleblowers, independent replication, &…people whose concerns are more immediate than a machine apo…”

“Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....”

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Timnit Gebru: Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....
Timnit Gebru: Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. P…
Timnit Gebru: "In 2025 the book he co-wrote with MIRI’s executive director, Nate Soares, about why superhuman AI would kill us all, made the New York Times bestseller list." The New York Times, amplifying eugeni…
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Primary source iankduncan.com ↗