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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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Established Policy & governance Analysis 20d ago
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AI black box industry myth

The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI | TechPolicy.Press

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““Those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following. That’s not a black box. It’s just a policy decision.” techpolicy.press/the-black-bo... Or: it’s a remediable black box.” evidence ↗
5 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Joanna Bryson Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Frank Pasquale

““Those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following. That’s not a black box. It’s just a policy decision.” techpolicy.press/the-black-bo... Or: it’s a remediable black box.”

“"No one understands" You say a whole bunch of things like they are facts. Which they are not. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean "no one understands." www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...”

4 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Timnit Gebru: Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized b…
Timnit Gebru: The absolute disrespect with which even those of you who say you "have respect" for me teat my decades long expertise, receipts body of work and discourse based on that never ceases to amaze me.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): "risk taking human existence" wtf is this person on about
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Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Timnit Gebru
“Everyone needs to read this. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ✴️ Reminder: These are @BernieSanders' main advisers on "AI" policy. https://t…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Abstract Tesseract

“Everyone needs to read this. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ✴️ Reminder: These are @BernieSanders' main advisers on "AI" policy. https://t…”

5 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Timnit Gebru: Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversatio…
Abstract Tesseract: Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversatio…
Timnit Gebru: 🔇 🔇 🔇 Reminder: These are the people advising Bernie Sanders on "AI" policy.
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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.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Emily M. Bender, Karen Gregory
“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.…” evidence ↗
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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

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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 business Analysis 13d ago
AI doomerism bad science business critique

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · AI Now Institute
“AI companies are calling for regulation in ways that let them set the rules, not independent parties who can hold them to account. “If you read between the lines, everything [Amodei] advocates [for] is something that would help companies like Anthropic,” sa…” evidence ↗
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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark AI Now Institute Tiffany C. Li The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo

“AI companies are calling for regulation in ways that let them set the rules, not independent parties who can hold them to account. “If you read between the lines, everything [Amodei] advocates [for] is something that would help companies like Anthropic,” sa…”

“One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussi…”

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute: AI doomerism isn't sound science, it's a parlor game. Great to see reporting that pushes back and quotes experts like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social. Coxon and Anthropic "d…
Emily M. Bender: AI doomerism isn't sound science, it's a parlor game. Great to see reporting that pushes back and quotes experts like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social. Coxon and Anthropic "d…
Teresa Heffernan: Published a paper that traces the fictional roots of irrational claims that superintelligent machines pose an existential risk: "Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the …
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