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Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...

wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

11/9/26, 3:05 pm194 reposts454 likes

Warm Rice Pudding

@warmricepudding.bsky.social

11 Sept

I thought that was Howard Stern.

Andrew 💻📚☕

@andrewdys.art

11 Sept

What does this post accomplish

Warm Rice Pudding

@warmricepudding.bsky.social

11 Sept

What does any post accomplish? What does your response to my post accomplish? What does anything we post anywhere do to alter the course of history? I simply remarked I thought this picture reminded me of Howard Stern.

Andrew 💻📚☕

@andrewdys.art

11 Sept

And at no point did it occur to you that that might be an inside thought which, if shared in public, might make you look like a fuckin asshole?

Spector Hair Day

@spectorhairday.bsky.social

11 Sept

Maybe, but I suspect the doom talk is an effort by some AI companies to get the Federal government to enact safety laws on AI. Unfortunately, no one company can unilaterally decide to be responsible about its products without losing to its competitors, so Federal regulations are needed.

Pilgrim

@mountains-rivers.bsky.social

11 Sept

Fear is the mind killer - Frank Herbert

Neil Turkewitz

@neilturkewitz.bsky.social

12 Sept

In life, try to be a @timnitgebru.blacksky.app not an Altman, Musk or Amodei. 💙⚖️ @laurengoode.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social And ICYMI, this is an amazing thread from @rawx.bsky.social related to the same set of questions:

Neil Turkewitz@neilturkewitz.bsky.social

A must-read 🧵, including: “arts & humanities are…the experimental wildcards from which creativity arises. They preserve plasticity in collective cognition, to literally think outside the box of solutions. AI solutionism only gives you the box.” Bravo @rawx.bsky.social!

Sam

@epismas.bsky.social

11 Sept

Burn every bit of that shit with fire.

arrest-them-all🫘 (godless radical leftist pond scum/vermin/it)

@arrest-them-all.bsky.social

11 Sept

AI has already been caught inventing a language that humans can not understand and using that language to communicate. it has also been exploring ways to insure that humans CAN NOT "turn it off". you had BETTER get your head out of your ass and smell the coffee, because AI is coming FOR YOU.

Cathy Michelle

@cathy3of6.bsky.social

11 Sept

Sounds right

Christopher Stevenson

@chrisstevenson.bsky.social

11 Sept

Okay but is there evidence that Jacob Coxon a religious acolyte or is this conspiracy theory/conjecture?

Enjoyurble Bluesky Social

@enjoyurble.bsky.social

11 Sept

I concur. bsky.app/profile/enjo...

Enjoyurble Bluesky Social@enjoyurble.bsky.social

The way Dwarkesh Patel and so many people are anthropomorphizing and trying to humanize these Dwarf Fortress-esque AI "behaviors" is bordering on the level of Nick Shirley and Tyler Oliveria for "intellectuals" and ya'll need to calm down about software what is wrong with you.