Timnit Gebru

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

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Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)

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🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.

When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵

english.elpais.com/internationa...

english.elpais.comEthiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deathsEstimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
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@itsafronomics.blacksky.appReposted by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

"But A.I. programs are not human; they are human creations." Correct.

And a loud, not-so-gentle reminder that if people had just listened to Black women technologists like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app from jump, we would be living with AI guardrails right now. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | Hold A.I. Companies Liable (Gift Article)A.I. companies must operate under our laws.
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

If you mean all those datacenters these bozos are building that are actually killing our environment, sure. Otherwise, I'd put the eugenicists who created "the study of existential risks" at the top of these lists 🙄 And this, my friends, is how eugenicists are laundered into the mainstream.

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Sounds like Nick Bostrom's 2022 "paper" listing "dysgenic" (opposite of eugenic) pressures, i.e undesirable humans reproducing too much, as one of the "existential risks to humanity." Like their eugenicist counterparts, this lists "malicious AI above nuclear weapons for 21st century health risks 🙄

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org

Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it.

thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

thebulletin.orgHow the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big businessThere is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Yes. Exactly. Jeff Dean was especially mad at section 3, our environmental and financial costs section. He went after Emma Strubell saying that they used the wrong numbers. He said that our paper doesn't discuss the "carbon neutral" nature of Google's data centers 🙄

@alexhanna.bsky.socialReposted by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

Ryan Stauffer@ryanswx.bsky.social

Haha, this fucking sucks.

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Lol well the CEO of a gazillion dollar company got triggered by the term sir. Your cult tried to take it down from Wikipedia and succeed at first but it came back and they couldn't succeed the second time. Cope 😂

@dairinstitute.bsky.socialReposted by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

The website is a project of the Higher Ed Protest Event Dataset (HiPED) Lab — @ellenberrey.bsky.social (University of Toronto), @alexhanna.bsky.social (DAIR), @nathanckim.bsky.social (DAIR, University of Michigan), and Kristen Bass (University of Toronto) — and the HiPED Advisory Collective.

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