The Who's Who of AI

“Do read the whole thing, think about your personal and professional values, and how they can serve as strong grounds for resistance and refusal. leidendeclaration.ai”

“This declaration by mathematicians which I saw him signing was actually pretty good. I was surprised that he signed it. leidendeclaration.ai”

“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.”

“"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettc…”

“"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's got…”

“Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politic…”

“We wrote a statement when they were on the press circuit doing this a few years ago but then who has time to do that every single damn time. dair-institute.org/blog/letter-...”

“Not to prop up doomer ignorant mansplainer Bill, but I used to joke with my former manager Samy Bengio on whether he doesn't get tired of showing that "reasoning claims are bullshit" (my words anyway). machinelearning.apple.com/research/ill...”

“Tegmark thought there should be an "alliance" to stop the oh so super intelligent devil kind of "AI" from coming to fruition. Who is in this alliance you say? Well none other than Steve Bannon. Any alliance with him has to be "pro human" right? www.theverge…”

“But do you really know what longtermism is? The stuff Tegmark talks about in his Life 3.0 book? Do you know what transhumanism is? Well we did the work for you in our TESCREAL paper: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...”

“One of our DAIR pillars is to put forward our vision for a positive technological future rather than watching on the sidelines as the broligrachy gets to implement their dystopian dreams. So @adiod.bsky.social edits a series we call The Possible Futures Ser…”

“@1xaipe Adam Becker's book has even more nonsense about these people. https://t.co/C4vysgNBl8”

“"I imagine myself as a small stone in a powerful gear mechanism, so that data workers are not completely run over without any resistance." From @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, a firsthand account of conditions and resistance from Apple's outsourced data wo…”

“When Rolling Stone asked him about issues I raised & got fired for he said the "notion" these machines will be "superintelligent" & kill us is much more serious than anything I warned about🙄https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warning…”

“"'There is this assumption,' Gebru added, 'that someone has to have a certain amount of literacy or that they have to speak a certain language in order for technology like AI to work very well for them.' DAIR flips that assumption."”

“Yes you have to choose who you want to order from on the site. I would suggest Book Shop personally :) bookshop.org/p/books/deep...”