“OpenAI’s stated corporate mission remains “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”

Lol

@timnitGebru early radios required repairs - I’ve seen schematics that were packed with sets from the early 20s. Why would you buy something that you or the local repair guy couldn’t fix..

We'll highlight each researcher throughout the week but I'll start with two.

Fasica Gebrekidan worked as a content moderator for Meta via Sama in Nairobi, Kenya for 2 years, until she was laid off for attempting to form a data workers’ union. Her heartbreaking report is on the unimaginable toll of both experiencing #TigrayGenocide AND moderating content related to it. Imagine. She discusses mental health issues and drug abuse.

You can download her report at https://data-workers.org/fasica/

The fact that a genocide of this proportion has been executed with such little media coverage & that the likes of Last Week Tonight had ZERO interest in even mentioning it a single time, regardless of how many angles I gave them, is something I will never forget.

@timnitGebru right now it doesn't feel like the 21st century is turning out any better than the 20th. I still remember hoping that it would

The ongoing genocide in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray has killed more than 700 thousand people, and left at least 100 thousand victims of rape as a weapon of war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63291747
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/26/ethiopia-tigray-rape-survivors-stigma/

The more than 100 THOUSAND estimated victims of rape as a weapon of war are suffering in silence. Think about that scale, and ask yourself why you haven't constantly been hearing about these victims. #TigrayGenocide

@timnitGebru the government… the one driven by societal pressure… saying it’s the responsibility of companies… the ones driven by profit alone. ideology is a hell of a drug.

@timnitGebru it’s a specific problem for open source but I see it as a symptom of a more general problem of how corps don’t interact sustainably with society.

Maybe closing that loop for a the specific problem of open source health and sustainability will inform us to approaches for the general problem.

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I want the utopia brought about by high top marginal tax rates

@timnitGebru Preach.

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My current stance is that anyone talking unironically about AGI as if it were a real thing should be regarded the same way that one would regard advocates for Scientology or the Moonies.

The field of artificial intelligence (ai) cycles through what are called AI summers, epochs where every other news headline seems to be about AI and there is ample funding for the field, and AI winters, which come from the disappointment of undelivered overpromises during the summers. We are currently in perhaps the most intense AI summer ever, where just the mere mention of “AI” gets startups 15­50% more funds in investment.

I am incredibly grateful to our speakers & this summary only scratches the surface. There are too many important points that I couldn't fit into this post. I highly, highly recommend that you watch the full recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrjA-5Ak0U&t=3s

@timnitGebru It's really something that AP made someone remove their name from the list too

@timnitGebru Jusult off the top of my head, William Schockley and Linus Pauling were Nobel Prize winning crackpots.

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I glanced at it & the factors they're not accounting for could fill volumes.

That's right "Blacks are more stupid than whites" and then he proceeds to call us the N word. That's not even the worst of it, because his entire career has been "raising awareness" about "dysgenic pressures" (the opposite of eugenic pressures), as existential risks to humanity. That is, those of us who are "stupider than mankind as a whole" reproducing too much and creating an inferior race.

@timnitGebru We may also need better structures to speed up and improve reporting and sharing of blocklists across instances. The recent growth has been overwhelming, a lot of admins are still struggling to keep things online. At the same time there are more hate servers being created all the time. We gotta figure out how to get better at dealing with those, ideally not just resorting to playing whackamole using a hashtag.

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social @CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social Wow, thanks for this.

... and I'm a fan... runs away

@timnitGebru Good stuff, thanks for sharing.