Timnit Gebru

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

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Five years ago, I was wrapping up my PhD and already incredibly lucky to have @alexhanna.bsky.social as my advisor. When she asked if I wanted to join @dairinstitute.bsky.social, which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app had just founded, I couldn't believe my luck. Even now, I still can't.

This is the stuff everybody really needs to understand about what’s actually going on within the big Silicon Valley AI tech companies

The archive represents years of work by The HiPED Lab, including @alexhanna.bsky.social (DAIR), @ellenberrey.bsky.social (U of Toronto), @nathanckim.bsky.social (UMich and DAIR), Kristen Bass (U of Toronto), plus an advisory collective and 29 research assistants. Check it out! campus-protest.org

The team used explainable machine learning models and community collaborators to generate the Higher Ed Protest Event Dataset (HiPED). Learn more about our design and methods: campus-protest.org/about/design...

The Campus Protests archive includes over 5,000 protest events across more than 500 universities in the US and Canada during the 2010s, a key period for left movement mobilization. You can explore the archive by school, issue, or campaign: campus-protest.org

We can build technology that helps our liberatory movements learn from the past, in order to build a better future. Our newest project is an archive of higher-ed campus protests, designed to support campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing. campus-protest.org

✨Your Daily Reminder✨: We don't have to build technology to surveil and kill. We can build technology that helps us fight for a better future.

This is really cool. Proud to be the former advisor and colleague of @alexhanna.bsky.social who is one of the leads on this. A searchable website of protest events data compiled about campus protests. Congratulations to the whole team!!

A project that Ellen and I have been working on for years, with much sweat from @nathanckim.bsky.social and others. How can we create protest event data for liberatory ends?

Now in this panel moderated by @alexhanna.bsky.social, Dr. Caleb Dawson mentioning how Micheal Brown's family had said that he knew that the whole world would know his name. They can now go to campus-protest.org/about and see how many people mobilized ❤️ www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

You can still catch the panel moderated by @alexhanna.bsky.social at www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

UCSD surveilled, wrote up police reports of expressive activities last year, identifying students. Same staff also attended and surveilled a class I taught a year ago, but later said oopsie Surveillance chills academic freedom+free speech--and it is meant to do so ucsdguardian.org/2026/10/19/u...

Tomorrow! Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social for the launch of our new resource, an archive of 2010 higher ed protest in the U.S. and Canada, designed for campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing. Tuesday, Oct 20, 9am PT / 12pm ET Register: bit.ly/decade-of-campus-protest

In our first episode, we talk to Dr. Keolu Fox about indigenizing tech, circular computing, data terrariums, planning 100 generations in the future, getting students to go watch some waves, and so much more. It was SUCH a cool convo, definitely don't want to miss it!

dylan is honestly one of my fave people in this space and i'm excited to see where this goes!! highly rec giving this a listen when the first ep drops, cause i know i will

I know they're at capacity for in person but you can still register to join this event online. Some of the "more to be announced" speakers are the people's mayor, Zohran Mamdani. actionnetwork.org/forms/ai-now...

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Here's a great Layman's explanation for why what OpenAI did was so fucking dangerous "Unsolvable problems" are like chew toys for mathematicians. They are not necessarily meant to be solved. They're not even really important problems. What's important are the HUMAN systems we youtu.be/KqiDqJMxg6o

get from solving them. The example in the video is the 7 bridges problem. No, we don't need to know the best route for 7 medieval era bridges However doing so *according to human thought and need* led to advances in traffic routing, internet routing etc. Take that away and you give this false...

Forthcoming book, available for preorder: _Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist_, by Timnit Gebru.

Thank you to the mathematicians like @louigi.bsky.social fighting back. www.ahmath.org/statements

TIMNIT HAS A BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bang this drum a lot, but the people interested in preserving social and racial hierarchies really want you to believe that those hierarchies are immutable facts of nature rather than choices made by us, the humans organizing our society.

What want to call your attention to is this quote from David Friedman, an anarchocapitalist who signed that weird manifesto Mark Andressen wrote recently. He's in deep with Scott Alexander and the rationalist/EA crew, and here is what he has to say about race "science" (what he calls HBD)

The best possible endorsement ❤️

And @timnitgebru.blacksky.app will be on TFTT soon!