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timnitGebru

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social

Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace and writing about the dangers of large language models: https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.

Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/) to work on community rooted AI research.

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❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

timnitGebru,
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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/

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Victims of sexual assault are currently suffering in silence, with many of them having contracted HIV and cervical cancer. Tigray has suffered one of the longest & worst sieges in modern history,
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/genocide-in-tigray/

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and the genocidal war has obliterated over 85% of its healthcare facilities.
https://addisstandard.com/news-two-year-war-leaves-86-of-tigrays-healthcare-facilities-devastated-new-report/

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I am using part of the generous Bold Prize I received from Sabrina Hersi Issa to match up to $15,000 of your donation, which would enable us to collectively raise $30,000 for the Asmlash-Grant Foundation.
https://boldprize.squarespace.com/

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This money would allow us to ship a 40-foot container full of medical supplies to Tigray, equipping 18 health facilities that serve hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom have to travel 100s of miles to access any type of healthcare facility.
https://asmlash-grant.org/

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While we cannot undo the horrors of the genocide, we can raise awareness about its consequences and lay the foundation for healing and recovery. You can see here a harrowing short documentary about starvation used as a weapon of war during the genocide.
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/109207-000-A/arte-reportage/

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"Leike had said that OpenAI's "safety culture & processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" in recent years, and that his team struggled to obtain the resources to get their safety work done."

Lol. But there never was a "safety culture"!

The founding of OpenAI was premised on "existential risk" of AI to "humanity," the new grift white men created to siphon even more resources for themselves under the guise of saving all of us.

https://mashable.com/article/openai-sam-altman-greg-brockman-respond-to-jan-leike-resignation

timnitGebru,
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So much "AI safety" when they're getting billions from Microsoft, Anthropic is getting billions from Amazon, and they're all trying to gobble up even more money from regimes like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. I don't know about you, but it certainly screams "safety" doesn't it?

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5k Eritreans estimated to flee EACH MONTH & 22% of asylum seekers arriving in Europe were Eritrean, 2nd only to Syrians even though the latter have 6x the population of Eritrea.

This is 8 years ago. Things have only gotten exponentially worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-CJ_AtCos

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Its also illegal to leave the country with a shoot to kill policy at the border if you're caught. Still people would rather risk that than the alternative of staying.

timnitGebru,
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@strangetown but they’re shipping asylum seekers off to Rwanda in the UK which is so evil :(

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I’m just thinking about how some of the biggest genociders in the 20th and 21st centuries have gotten Nobel peace prizes. 🤔

I kind of see it more as a warning label at this point.

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Friends, I haven't read the Chuck Schumer "report" on AI. Why should I? I knew where it was headed by seeing who they invited (and when they tried to invite me as a back fill/window dressing) & the fact that he asked people what their "p(doom)" was shudder. My whole life is not centered around commenting on what all these ridiculous people are doing. For that, I've written a very detailed paper with Emile P. Torres that you can refer to. Find it and other resources at https://dair-institute.org/tescreal/.

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They keep on wasting our times with all this. We knew this was what it was going to end up in. Did you see who was invited and what their topics were? The senator referred to "god like AI." Him and his likes are 100% captured by the TESCREALists which should tell us what policy they would come up with.

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Those of you in the US please make your voices heard. If you don't think this impacts you, best believe it will get to you one way or another.

https://action.cair.com/a/reject-targeting-nonprofits

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"Tell your U.S. senator to oppose H.R.6408 and S.4136, Orwellian bills that would authorize a single official in the Treasury Department to strip any nonprofit organizations of their tax-exempt status without any accountability, justification, or due process. This bill was meant to target pro-Palestinian charities and nonprofit organizations and could be easily weaponized to target any nonprofit organization the President finds objectionable."

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"No American organization should be stripped of its legal status because of politics or anti-Palestinian bigotry masked as national security"

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The vengeance by these universities is so evil. I heard that MIT suspended more than 24 students, with a bunch of them one week before graduation, so they don't know if they'll graduate. Evil.

timnitGebru,
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@TruthSandwich Thank you for letting me know. Blocking. Bye.

timnitGebru, to random
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"University would rather continue to aid and abet in genocide" would be the appropriate title.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/sonoma-state-president-leave-gaza-00158285

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"Heavy rains and flooding in Rio Grande do Sul since last week also have left 130 people missing, authorities said. More than 230,000 have been displaced, and much of the region has been isolated by the floodwaters."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/southern-brazil-is-still-reeling-from-massive-flooding-as-it-faces-risk-from-new-storms/ar-BB1m3M62

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Another festival is coming celebrating the 33rd "independence" of Eritrea. Because Eritrea's current condition is the epitome of independence. As the Eritrean minister of (dis)information notes, every festival celebrating PEACE in any diaspora community obviously has one very important component, always, and that is the presence of a genocidal army 👇

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Does anyone remember an analysis from way back in the day that showed that the term “neural networks” was associated with the least likely papers to be accepted to NeurIPS? Like the term highly correlated with paper rejections, before everything became deeplearning?

timnitGebru,
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@davidbeers I don't know about a movement per se but there are journals and various groups of people publishing these types of alternatives/writings etc.

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In this @AJEnglish analysis by Shola Lawal, Raesetje Sefala discusses what she has found through our spatial apartheid research.

"Raesetje Sefala, a researcher at...DAIR, said her organisation has observed that townships are still expanding. “They continue to resemble their appearance during the apartheid era, indicating that similar small land sizes are still being allocated,” she told Al Jazeera."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/27/south-africa-30-years-after-apartheid-what-has-changed

timnitGebru,
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@BenjaminKlein @DAIR Not everyone who is "not wealthy" is poor. They are just not wealthy.

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