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Reaction converging Models Don't Go Rogue Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing Safety & security Analysis 1d ago
models don't go rogue essay

Models Don't Go Rogue

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Benjamin Riley Elke Schwarz René Walter
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”

5 experts discussed this · 20 posts
Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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OpenAI math research misconduct allegations

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

5 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Timnit Gebru joao Eileen Clancy 🧿 Tommy Löfstedt René Walter
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Research & technical analysis

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“OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say archived: archive.ph/JCl4g”

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“How many of you saw that we solved math thing from OpenAI and how many of you saw this article? Given that alleged plagiarism seems to be on the news these days, what about a real one? https://t.co/yxsbD2MHR2”

2 experts discussed this · 26 posts
Timnit Gebru: These men who say factually and technically wrong things with such confidence are so fascinating to me. HE doesn't know what a language model is and thinks that OUR formulation is wrong. Because HE…
Timnit Gebru: Emily Bender is a more patient person than me and has written a Frequently Unasked Questions about this. I have seen a whole bunch of people saying this like its some gotcha talking point they've a…
Timnit Gebru: We even DEFINED what language models are in our paper and gave their history.
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New AI field signal Analysis 3h ago
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essay how to talk AI

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

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

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
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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3 experts · 3 posts · 9d ago
Timnit Gebru Olivia Guest Teresa Heffernan
Teresa Heffernan: How he made it on the list: "effective altruism community"--sketchy people with tons of money & power; the same way Kurzweil's Singularity and Bostrom's Superintelligence (fiction posing as science…
Timnit Gebru: A rando effective altruist with no expertise in what he's talking about appears on this list and gets cited by mainstream media etc after a coordinated social media campaign and effective altruist …
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2 experts · 3 posts · 9d ago
Timnit Gebru 🌶 David Gray Widder
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Timnit Gebru: It's crazy that people constantly take the words of the tech billionaires who got us to today. Bill Gates is responsible for getting Microsoft to give billions to OpenAI because he thinks they're b…
🌶 David Gray Widder: Also I thought we agreed Bill Gates wasn't a thought leader anymore because his thoughts included hanging out w Pedos? Why is he everywhere again?
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