Nostr notes by Timnit Gebru (she/her).

Thank you Linda. I would appreciate any support getting the word ...

2026-10-15T01:17:38Z

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Thank you Linda. I would appreciate any support getting the word out about my book because today I found out that Geoff Hinton's publisher is moving up his book's publication date and I'm pretty sure its because of my book. And his book is all about the cults' prophecies so now I not only have to counteract these bozos but a book by a so-called Nobel Prize winning chief bozo coming out 2 weeks before mine 🙄

Adam Becker wrote the book More Everything Forever. ...

2026-10-15T00:59:53Z

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Adam Becker wrote the book More Everything Forever. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-becker/more-everything-forever/9781541619593/

Gil Duran wrote The Nerd Reich: bookshop.org/p/books/the-nerd-reich-silicon-valley-fascism-and-the-war-on-democracy-gil-dur-n/a6f6f0dce1150339

And you can also preorder my own upcoming book https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unlearning/Timnit-Gebru/9781668093078. Honestly I hadn't realized how long I've had to deal with these people for until I wrote my book 😡

I give examples of how this happened in my upcoming book which ...

2026-10-13T17:17:55Z

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I give examples of how this happened in my upcoming book which you can preorder at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unlearning/Timnit-Gebru/9781668093078?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24329797406&gbraid=0AAAAADv-uEkaCMvpVbcJdPwEAxVho5bEZ&gclid=CjwKCAjwrbfWBhAeEiwAc2e6Pn--thXajsLcQzP_lKQUk4TMQRM47-5qiQjH_0wotrEmL0RfXWZbqRoCf8kQAvD_BwE

There's a reason Yann LeCun was whining about his papers not being accepted in computer vision venues in 2012. It wasn't because deep learning "didn't work" then.

By then the benchmarks and metrics and numbers were already clear. It was because people didn't like the explanation of well I can't mathematically describe the properties of my models but NUMBERS GO BIG ON BENCHMARK.

MJ says: "there is an engineering discipline yet to emerge ...

2026-10-13T17:16:52Z

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MJ says: "there is an engineering discipline yet to emerge for the data-focused and learning-focused fields.”

It became, train big, test big you don't need to know anything else.

Then of course the TESCREAL people came and took it to a whole new level of pseudoscience, cults and secular religion.

But even before that, the erosion of appropriate engineering practices was clear.

While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael ...

2026-10-13T17:16:26Z

While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael Jordan and his interview calling this ridiculousness around fictional machine gods for what it is, let me share with you this essay he wrote in 2018 where he was similarly spot on.

With the success of deep learning, the deep learning philosophy has also permeated machine learning, which has little respect for actual engineering practices.

https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7

"In 2021, co-founder Anna Salamon, by then CFAR’s ...

2026-10-04T23:39:20Z

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"In 2021, co-founder Anna Salamon, by then CFAR’s president, acknowledged that at least three employees had effectively been compelled to undergo “debugging,” the community’s term for intervention in a person’s own psychology."

Nothing to see here.

"Yarvin was not an outsider to the rationalist community; he ...

2026-10-04T22:45:45Z

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"Yarvin was not an outsider to the rationalist community; he had been posting in the community’s own forums before he started his own blog, and by 2011 LessWrong’s annual survey was asking members whether they had been influenced by him, because enough of them had that the question seemed worth tabulating."

Curtis Yarvin is in there too.

When its all said and done, if these people end up being exposed ...

2026-10-04T20:51:25Z

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When its all said and done, if these people end up being exposed like Epstein and his associates, everyone will pretend that it wasn't out in the open like this and that they had made it so difficult for us to expose them. The mainstream media will pretend that they weren't constantly platforming these people (hello TIME MAGAZINE, NYT, Atlantic etc), hello everyone else recently?

"I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as ...

2026-10-04T20:50:28Z

"I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources. The people in this story are not a secret society coordinating over dinner. They are a social scene: overlapping friendship groups, funding relationships, and sexual and romantic relationships, all of it threaded through the institutions asking you to trust them about AI regulation."

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse

For the uninitiated, Bernie Sanders' AI bills are being ...

2026-10-04T17:25:14Z

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For the uninitiated, Bernie Sanders' AI bills are being written by a eugenicist cult full of predators organizing "rape orgies."

Michael Vassar in that list is also the former president of MIRI, the organization closely advising Sanders.

Guys, we can't except our "leftist" politicians preoccupied with the 1% and all that to care about eugenics or sexual assault or cults or anything like that right?

Like Stochastic Parrots, TESCREAL is also an acronym they hate ...

2026-10-04T17:24:34Z

Like Stochastic Parrots, TESCREAL is also an acronym they hate and are talking about.

In the comments agreeing with a poster about TESCREAL, was Joscha Bach saying that the acronym basically accuses everyone we disagree with of being Hitler.

Funny he brings up hitler. "Very blue eyed indeed."

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is worse than anything we ...

2026-10-03T17:39:47Z

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing.

🔇 🔇 🔇 Reminder: These are the people advising Bernie Sanders on "AI" policy.

Link: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q

Who is this technology "protecting"? Who is surveilling ...

2026-10-01T16:39:59Z

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Who is this technology "protecting"? Who is surveilling and who is paying the cost?

There is still not enough research about refugees and technology. The research is being discussed at conferences, universities etc.

"The human touch" is missing. There are human beings on the other side.

Happening now. At our "Lampedusa keeps on happening" ...

2026-10-01T16:28:58Z

Happening now. At our "Lampedusa keeps on happening" event, Meron Estefanos (npub1zmk…6wm0) is telling us the stories of the people who perished. The stories of the human beings behind the statistics. 💔

You can still join us by registering at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN_u2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration

The media on "takes on rogue AI," features billionaires ...

2026-09-29T00:26:45Z

The media on "takes on rogue AI," features billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend dollars 😂

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/26/nx-s1-5979085/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions

Read this, and now remember that these are the people all over ...

2026-09-26T15:55:29Z

Read this, and now remember that these are the people all over the news talking about the fictional "existential risks" of AI.

These are the people all over the UN, all over governments, including so-called "left" in the US.

These cults are the ones Bernie Sanders calls the world's "leading AI experts."

****trigger warning**** sexual violence.
https://theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effective-altruism-kids-arent?r=8qt9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social ...

2026-09-24T14:29:22Z

🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees.

Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵

⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom.

✴️ Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN_u2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration

I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather ...

2026-09-24T13:14:56Z

I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather because the hype DDOS strikes daily 🙄 As for the whole CRISPR Dario "discovery" announcement:

See below

By me and @npub15xv…0jms. "According to the AI industry, we ...

2026-09-23T14:47:23Z

By me and Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (npub15xv…0jms).

"According to the AI industry, we should be more worried about a fictional machine god than about the climate catastrophe these data centers exacerbate, the asthma suffered by those living near them, the rising electricity bills of the public subsidizing them, or the water...[for] cooling them."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

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2026-09-20T03:19:34Z

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Because they're telling you that they've created a super ...

2026-09-20T03:17:18Z

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Because they're telling you that they've created a super intelligent super powerful thing which is product marketing and they want to tell the government that they don't want their adversaries to outpace them, aka ban China. At this point I have answered that question so many times, all you need to do is just search for my name and find the more than 10 media appearances I had even just last week answering this question.

Meanwhile, down here on earth, this is what's really ...

2026-09-17T00:30:55Z

Meanwhile, down here on earth, this is what's really happening while we're all forced to entertain the "super intelligent" machine god killing us cause its too smart 🙄

Best believe Anthropic & OpenAI sales people are lobbying hospitals to adopt these tools at full speed.

You think they're asking for regulation AGINST this stuff 🙄

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

Twitter is TESCREAL social media (for obvious reasons), which ...

2026-09-12T16:57:34Z

Twitter is TESCREAL social media (for obvious reasons), which helps me see their talking points

1. Anyone pushing "stochastic parrots framing" shouldn't be taken seriously.

2. People "denying" the machine god narrative, like me, are akin to anti-vaxxers & climate deniers.

These are things they're saying to the left politicians they've captured, like Bernie Sanders who's being advised on "AI" by eugenicist doomsday cult leaders.

I wish we really were in a simulation like this people say 🙄

Seems like a good time to post quote from Stewart & Norvig ...

2026-09-08T22:41:31Z

Seems like a good time to post quote from Stewart & Norvig (3rd edition) of events in 1997.

"Kasparov said that he felt a “new kind of intelligence” across the board from him. Newsweek magazine described the match as “The brain’s last stand.” The value of IBM’s stock increased by $18 billion."

"Two of the most exciting results, the experts say, ...

2026-09-07T16:46:32Z

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"Two of the most exciting results, the experts say, incorporate preexisting ideas from the recent mathematical literature without properly citing them. This contradicts OpenAI’s initial press release, which said that the problems Astra addressed “have been open and seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade.” (OpenAI has since updated the language to be more accurate).

Friends, you may have seen this but if not, sharing: "The ...

2026-09-07T16:46:24Z

Friends, you may have seen this but if not, sharing:

"The LLM-generated proof hinges on a particular mathematical argument that it presented as its own but that actually first appeared in a 2016 paper by Miller and a collaborator."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openais-latest-math-breakthroughs-commit-research-misconduct-experts-say/

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, ...

2026-09-06T01:41:16Z

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change."

https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/

Thank you to people like @npub175v…g8tr for constantly doing ...

2026-09-03T22:21:20Z

Thank you to people like Eryk Salvaggio (npub175v…g8tr) for constantly doing this but I'm tapped out y'all. It's a trap. Constantly debunking whatever random stuff they come up with until you have no time or headspace to do anything else.

https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-go-rogue/

Any guesses as to why this isn't prime time international ...

2026-09-02T21:57:56Z

Any guesses as to why this isn't prime time international news with over 200+ articles per minutes and abuse on social media and think pieces and such?

What could possibly be the reason? 🤔 I can't possibly imagine.

This is what real academic fraud looks like.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke-university-professor-dan-ariely-accused-of-additional-research-fraud-fabrication-tampering-epstein-data-colada-replication-20260902

The random Effective Altruist troll paid by billionaires to push ...

2026-08-28T15:21:35Z

The random Effective Altruist troll paid by billionaires to push disinformation about the environmental impact of AI (that its fake), being platformed on the Time 100 AI list tells you everything you need to know about mainstream media's role in the pushing the broligraphy's propaganda and disinformation. This troll suddenly became popular through coordinated social media campaigns.

Friends, as ridiculous as it is that we even have to do this, I ...

2026-08-26T02:44:46Z

Friends, as ridiculous as it is that we even have to do this, I think Ghent should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This is a letter created by academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist fraud now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk.

You can add your name.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenkE7wxDRTjgT5XArgRqIPipLPP-Ibb7LkmXya5ZuxfotTKg/viewform

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2026-08-26T01:00:13Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117157917923413122

So well deserved 🎉 🎉 🎉

quoting
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Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography)

https://washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washington-state-book-award-finalists-announced/

w/ Alex Hanna (npub1e2z…n97d)

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, ...

2026-08-22T17:06:04Z

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?

I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.

Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students

Well, well, well, I KNEW that the hounding of Arday was gonna get ...

2026-08-21T14:05:54Z

Well, well, well, I KNEW that the hounding of Arday was gonna get connected back to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. See this "paper" by the guy who hired Cofnas at Ghent University.

Reminder "dysgenic" is the opposite of "eugenic," they mean Black people and other undesirables reproducing too much.

Reminder, the L in TESCREAL is for "longtermism."

Read more at https://dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/

These are also the people pushing generative AI down your throats.

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has ...

2026-08-19T03:55:23Z

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media.

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

thank you!

2026-08-13T22:25:43Z

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thank you!

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for ...

2026-08-13T11:29:48Z

🔇 🔇 🔇 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 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unlearning/Timnit-Gebru/9781668093078

✴️ Is there a local bookstore that you think should order this book? Can you let me know, or, even better, let them know?

✴️ Is there a place I should plan to come for a book tour when the book is out? Can you lmk?

🗣️🗣️🗣️Announcing that I'll be creating a fully ...

2026-08-06T22:49:56Z

🗣️🗣️🗣️Announcing that I'll be creating a fully autonomous startup, staffed by AGI. I care deeply about humanity's future and can't wait to work alongside ethical workers to hopefully make a gazillion 💰. Surely I shouldn't be left out of the retirement and oil 💸 flowing into this bubble.

Making the 💸💸 is an unavoidable side effect of me saving the world, which I have to endure (it's dangerous to let anyone else attempt it).

But that's the price of carrying the world's burden and bringing utopia.

We're in the era of incompetence and cybercrimes headlined as ...

2026-08-01T13:40:10Z

We're in the era of incompetence and cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media and clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a ...

2026-07-30T02:08:40Z

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. That’s even more than the $1.35 trillion in debt the five companies officially reported in their financial data for the most recent quarter."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet

Its all about "free markets" and "let the market ...

2026-07-24T14:26:10Z

Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of bullshit you are and then you run to daddy Trump saying to stop these bad Chinese models from entering our market.

The irony of OpenAI and Anthropic running to the government to save them whenever there’s competition and it’s this government that complains about “handouts” and communism.

Like I would have thought someone would go to prison or something ...

2026-07-22T21:11:04Z

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Like I would have thought someone would go to prison or something but no, its been redirected to "model capabilities" and the press is talking about "rogue" models and such, not what OpenAI just did.

Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch ...

2026-07-22T21:01:51Z

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Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch of bots on Hugging Face as an "unprecedented cyber incident," is a master class in branding and marketing. Lol and branding what happened as OpenAI now working to "help calibrate on what models are now capable of" is top notch propaganda skills.

You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this whole thing as a ...

2026-07-22T21:01:48Z

You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this whole thing as a *partnership* between OpenAI and Hugging Face when what actually happened was that Hugging Face found someone using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities and found out that that someone was OpenAI, lol.

Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.

When physicist & best selling author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ...

2026-07-21T15:36:03Z

When physicist & best selling author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein sent me this declaration on AI written & signed by a bunch of mathematicians, I was initially super skeptical because I had seen a whole bunch of such “declarations” which, at best, are distractions from the actual problems we should be discussing. But once I started reading, I was mostly nodding my head up and down in complete agreement and super impressed at how spot on so many of the points were.

https://leidendeclaration.ai. 🧵

Spot on. H/t Dagmar Monett. https://www.wikihow.life/Reply-Guy

2026-07-07T03:17:46Z

Spot on. H/t Dagmar Monett.

https://www.wikihow.life/Reply-Guy

Scientific American's Megha Satyanarayana asked me what ...

2026-06-16T20:19:40Z

Scientific American's Megha Satyanarayana asked me what advice I have for young scientists. My answer:

"Question everything, question the source of information that you get [...] Just follow all the rabbit holes [...] You spend years and years and years still asking the same question or following a specific rabbit hole that other people are too tired to follow. And that’s really where there is no shortcut to scientific discovery or innovation. You have to struggle."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timnit-gebru/

Weekend present for me, Stanford grads walking out of Sundar ...

2026-06-15T07:26:43Z

Weekend present for me, Stanford grads walking out of Sundar Pichai's speech chanting "free Palestine." And old guard venture capitalists like Vinod Khosla have the audacity to call these students "selfish" lol.

"Why don't they eat cake" level of out of toughness combined with the evil.

Remember folks, they're all about "ethics" and ...

2026-05-30T16:34:52Z

Remember folks, they're all about "ethics" and "safety" this money is just the cost of bringing us utopia through beneficial "artificial general intelligence" and preventing the bad guys from creating the machine devil that will kill us all.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/28/anthropic-open-ai-startup-value.html

All that money saving and "efficiency" because of ...

2026-05-30T14:59:24Z

All that money saving and "efficiency" because of "AI"...
https://techstartups.com/2026/05/28/company-accidentally-spent-500-million-on-claude-ai-in-one-month-after-forgetting-usage-limits/

Another great piece by @npub175v…g8tr "Myth-making is a ...

2026-05-29T19:21:05Z

Another great piece by Eryk Salvaggio (npub175v…g8tr)

"Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and black boxes are woven into the stories they tell."

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-black-box-myth-what-the-industry-pretends-not-to-know-about-ai/

Well an Anthropic cofounder was specifically thanked during the ...

2026-05-25T18:37:17Z

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Well an Anthropic cofounder was specifically thanked during the Pope's speech where he said that they will "work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence." Chris Olah wasn't a random attendee. The Vatican had been cultivating these relationships for many years.

Instead they partnered with Anthropic, like partnering with the ...

2026-05-25T18:14:20Z

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Instead they partnered with Anthropic, like partnering with the Sackler family to discuss the harms of oxy.

Now if the Vatican had partnered with the exploited data workers ...

2026-05-25T18:14:11Z

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Now if the Vatican had partnered with the exploited data workers fighting for their rights, the people whose water is polluted fighting data centers, or the many other victims around the world, I would have written whatever they wrote.

If the Vatican told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs and lying about product "capabilities, " then sure I would have read whatever they wrote.

Am I going to read this Anthropic + Vatican document? No I'm ...

2026-05-25T18:11:33Z

Am I going to read this Anthropic + Vatican document?

No I'm not. All I know is that the Vatican is doing Vatican washing, just like green washing. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised as they have a venture capital arm that invests in Silicon Valley companies 🤷🏼

Friends in New York, join us for a taping of the Mystery AI Hype ...

2026-04-30T14:56:46Z

Friends in New York, join us for a taping of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast LIVE TONIGHT with Alex Hanna (npub1e2z…n97d) & Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (npub15xv…0jms) at Starr Bar in Brooklyn!

⏰ Door opens at 6:30pm, show starts at 7pm.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-ai-hype-theater-3000-live-tickets-1986920944030

“According to my understanding, the girls you were involved ...

2026-04-29T18:52:29Z

“According to my understanding, the girls you were involved with were old enough to know what they were doing, so society really has no ‘moral right’ to lock you up,” Goertzel wrote to Epstein. “This is a fucked-up society we live in. But past ones have really been no better — the fault is really w/ the human brain architecture, which is precisely what I’m aiming to supercede in my AGI work.”

Exhibit 1m of major TESCREAL figures being far worse than whatever we said.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/blue-eyes-epstein-artificial-intelligence-eugenics-silicon-valley/

This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of ...

2026-04-27T17:54:25Z

This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of someone who experienced ChatGPT enabled psychosis.

I'll also note how the TESCREAL framing of "alignment" is basically marketing for the companies, which is why it is pushed by the same funders of the AI companies in the name of "AI safety."

https://joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

Seems like random"data centers don't consume water" ...

2026-04-25T21:33:03Z

Seems like random"data centers don't consume water" dude who went viral because of the effective altruists money has a new victim.

Glad the victim wrote about it though.

https://www.bennjordan.com/blog/the-altruists-have-arrived

Fascinating read from Dijkstra from 1978 (while ignoring some ...

2026-04-21T18:21:39Z

Fascinating read from Dijkstra from 1978 (while ignoring some other annoying stuff in there): https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html "when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes."

I was reading along and then I got to this part. 🙄 ...

2026-04-21T02:58:44Z

I was reading along and then I got to this part. 🙄

"Further, and frighteningly, some very knowledgeable people fear that what was once seen as science fiction could soon become a reality, and that is that superintelligent AI could become smarter than humans, could become independent of human control, and pose an existential threat to the human race. "

Folks, Bernie has been fully captured by the TESCREAL bundle

https://justfacts.votesmart.org/public-statement/1700273/9999

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116366642191544466 ...

2026-04-15T21:14:00Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116366642191544466

Friends, this virtual event is on Friday. You'll hear from truly extraordinary people. Don't forget to register if interested, at, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887?aff=oddtdtcreator

Read more below 👇🏼

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🔇🔇🔇 On Friday April 17th (9am PDT/5pm CET/7pm EAT), we'll have a virtual event introducing our Refugees, Migrants & AI research which centers their lived experiences.

We introduce a limited podcast series highlighting Sudanese refugees, discuss tools like Surveillance Watch, and show how immigrant communities are supporting each other through Respond Crisis Translation.

We end with a creative workshop to remind us that the future is ours to shape.

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RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116375683167638890 For ...

2026-04-10T18:14:15Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116375683167638890

For those of you in Portland, this in person event is tomorrow.

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🔇🔇🔇 Are you in the Portland area? Looking to exercise your imaginative muscles and take a break from doom scrolling?

Join our in person Possible Futures workshop with Data & Society Research Institute.

⏰ This Saturday April 11, 1pm-3pm.

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🔇🔇🔇 On Friday April 17th (9am PDT/5pm CET/7pm EAT), ...

2026-04-08T02:07:27Z

🔇🔇🔇 On Friday April 17th (9am PDT/5pm CET/7pm EAT), we'll have a virtual event introducing our Refugees, Migrants & AI research which centers their lived experiences.

We introduce a limited podcast series highlighting Sudanese refugees, discuss tools like Surveillance Watch, and show how immigrant communities are supporting each other through Respond Crisis Translation.

We end with a creative workshop to remind us that the future is ours to shape.

☘️ Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930 ...

2026-04-02T03:17:06Z

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.
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Literally the questions of "what if computer science was no ...

2026-04-02T03:04:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…ttet
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Literally the questions of "what if computer science was no longer about figuring out the most efficient way to do X but the brute force way to do X"?

Great article.

2026-04-02T02:46:42Z

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Great article.

That it will just take a different form, which is fine?

2026-04-02T02:09:38Z

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That it will just take a different form, which is fine?

I'm not even talking about the data stealing, exploitation, ...

2026-04-02T02:09:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…z4u6
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I'm not even talking about the data stealing, exploitation, environmental pillaging, pollution, environmental racism etc.

I'm talking about the way people use the tools. Like what do advocates of using these tools say will happen to software engineering in the future? That it just won't need to exist because everyone will be able to create software using these tools?

I appreciated this article by @mttaggart infosec.exchange. I get ...

2026-04-02T02:07:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…uwac
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I appreciated this article by @mttaggart
infosec.exchange.

I get the temptation especially in this world we're all living in where you have to produce something super fast all the time.

But my question is, what are people's arguments for how functioning software can be created with these tools?

What about new architectures, new ways of thinking, new programming languages, etc? Who will create those?

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just ...

2026-04-02T02:04:43Z

This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health care to god knows what.

These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance reviews for "not using AI."

These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Thank you for the shoutout Valerie Veatch! In this interview with ...

2026-03-27T23:01:39Z

Thank you for the shoutout Valerie Veatch!

In this interview with The Maybe, she cited the Stochastic Parrots and TESCREAL papers as key sources for the creation of her film, Ghost in the Machine ❤️

https://csm.transistor.fm/episodes/fantasy-factory-one-filmmakers-fight-against-ai-w-valerie-veatch

You can also read Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (npub15xv…0jms) comparison of this documentary with the other one, (The AI Doc which I DON"T recommend) on https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/.

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116213345736660807 ...

2026-03-23T23:27:16Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116213345736660807

Reminder that applications for this position are open until April 13. We've already received 240+ applications so maybe it isn't advisable for us to continue to open this position, since we read every single application. So no "AI" generated ones please, don't think we can't tell.

If you know someone who would be great for the position, or if you yourself would be, please apply. 👇🏽

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Come Work With Us!

We are hiring for a Communications Lead role to support our ongoing and emerging needs across owned media, website, social media and events. Interested?

Read the detailed job description and apply on Greenhouse.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/distributedairesearchinstitute/jobs/4130897009

"Galton and his fellow eugenicist / protegee Karl Pearson ...

2026-03-22T00:40:57Z

"Galton and his fellow eugenicist / protegee Karl Pearson were not directly involved in the development of early computational machines. But Galton’s foundational work with multidimensional modeling — a technique he used while measuring the attractiveness of African and European women — shaped Pearson’s thinking as he developed statistical tools like logistic regression, which is one of the fundamental components of modern machine learning."

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview

On another day, we'll discuss why this is happening. ...

2026-03-20T19:09:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…mlk8
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On another day, we'll discuss why this is happening.

Effective altruists and overall TESCREAL bundle billionaires have infiltrated the labor movement and journalism, offering fellowships with staggering amounts of money like they invested ridiculous amounts of money into these companies claiming to build machine gods.

Money for the "problem" and money for "the solution."

A company amassing billions saying they'll at once save us ...

2026-03-20T19:08:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ext
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A company amassing billions saying they'll at once save us from evil super intelligent machines and build the benevolent super intelligent machine that will solve all of our problems. They're so worried about people not getting "reskilled" because workers are going to be replaced by their machine god that will do our jobs so much better than us. Investors want to hear about machine gods displacing workers because, well, that's how they make money.

You don't believe Altman is such a figure but you think ...

2026-03-20T19:08:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…c58d
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You don't believe Altman is such a figure but you think Amodei, who insisted that OpenAI use all 10,000 GPUs and train the biggest model possible, when he was there, is such a figure?

In his video, Bernie is literally creating a Claude ad, showing the system as an all knowing being that answers all of his questions. An ad for Anthropic, a company claiming that they can't even confidently say that "Claude isn't conscious".

I don't remember who said this, but it's like telling you ...

2026-03-20T19:06:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…pg56
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I don't remember who said this, but it's like telling you to buy Camels instead of Marlboros while claiming to fight tobacco companies. If any politician parrots talking points of a CEO on a funding round, even on the harms of AI systems, you should be worried.

Remember when Altman schmoozed them and newspapers had headlines of him "begging" to be regulated and hailing him as an Oppenheimer figure who is so worried about his own creation 🙄?

That was just last year! https://time.com/7267797/ai-leaders-oppenheimer-moment-musk-altman/.

Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, Dario Amodei's ...

2026-03-20T19:04:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…0tgt
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Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, Dario Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him. Amodei positions Anthropic as the ethical alternative to OpenAI just like OpenAI positioned itself as the ethical alternative to Google in 2015 and everyone ate it up. This was an article from then, the headline says that Muskrat, Thiel, Altman + friends founded an "altruistic AI venture" 🙄
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344

Bernie Sanders just created a video to make a point about issues ...

2026-03-20T19:04:44Z

Bernie Sanders just created a video to make a point about issues of privacy in AI (a real problem). His supporters on Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic."

So I'm going to elaborate on the corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.

"Chan suggested that the team stay optimistic about Trump’s ...

2026-03-19T23:02:06Z

"Chan suggested that the team stay optimistic about Trump’s presidency, that they wait and see what would happen. At one point, [...] Chan’s eyes welled as she described witnessing the “peaceful transfer of power” and conveying that moment to her immigrant parents. 🙄

https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-politics-pr/

Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in ...

2026-03-16T06:01:14Z

Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in this one hour panel with Karen Hao and John Palfrey.

You can find the recording at https://www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM81NCM

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116213345736660807 ...

2026-03-12T01:01:00Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116213345736660807

Interested in working at DAIR? We're hiring a communications lead, who we needed yesterday. Is that you? Please apply. Is that people you know? Please share the job ad with them so that they apply.

💥💥💥 No "AI" generated applications please. We read every application. E.g. we read through nearly 600 internship applications a couple of years back. It's pretty easy to tell whether someone is blasting slop or truly spending the time to apply.

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Come Work With Us!

We are hiring for a Communications Lead role to support our ongoing and emerging needs across owned media, website, social media and events. Interested?

Read the detailed job description and apply on Greenhouse.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/distributedairesearchinstitute/jobs/4130897009

What our tax dollars are paying for. ...

2026-03-09T22:55:37Z

What our tax dollars are paying for.

https://ceobs.org/black-rain-the-health-and-environmental-risks-from-tehrans-oil-fires/

RE: https://dair-community.social/@Meron/116199326654385711 As ...

2026-03-09T20:54:04Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@Meron/116199326654385711

As someone who came to the US as a refugee with political asylum I can't overstate how cruel this is. I was already terrified and had nightmares every day. And here they're telling you that you didn't get to safety after all that, that they will reverse your status on a whim, if they deem it safe for you to return. As Warsan Shire wrote, no one leaves home unless home becomes the mouth of a shark.
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Check out this interactive website by Nana Mgbechikwere N., ...

2026-03-04T23:49:06Z

Check out this interactive website by Nana Mgbechikwere N., showing BigTech and "AI" companies' media capture.

No wonder the public is getting misinformed.

They say its inspired by Surveillance Watch ❤️

https://nananwachukwu.github.io/media-capture-watch/

Plenty more to say but let me stop here. You wanna get mixed up ...

2026-03-04T23:30:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…amcn
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Plenty more to say but let me stop here. You wanna get mixed up with these people? Don't see we didn't tell you 🤷🏽

Additional reading: https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/

Is that billionaire Jaan "I will fund OpenAI, Anthropic and ...

2026-03-04T23:30:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…m69x
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Is that billionaire Jaan "I will fund OpenAI, Anthropic and any other white dude who talks about 'effective altruism' and saving humanity while getting themselves wealthy" Tallinn? Yea.

Is that Ray "Jeffery Epstein says he knows him well" Kurzweil? (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-the-transhumanist-pedophile-who-hoped-to-live-forever/) Yea. He has the mic and wants to warn all of us about the impending singularity explosion brought about by AI. We should help him save us.

The billionaires and eugenicists on this manel are the actual ...

2026-03-04T23:30:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…49g8
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The billionaires and eugenicists on this manel are the actual existential risks to humanity we should worry about.

Is that Nick "Blacks are more stupid than whites" Bostrom? Yea
Is that Sam Harris? Yea
Is that Max "I accidentally offered a grant to pro Nazi media outlet" Tegmark? (https://www.vice.com/en/article/future-of-life-institute-max-tegmark-elon-musk/) Yea but not in the photo, he's at the podium.
Is that Muskrat? Of course

Seems like the Future of Life Institute has succeeded in ...

2026-03-04T23:30:01Z

Seems like the Future of Life Institute has succeeded in legitimizing themselves the same way Angela Saini outlined race scientists legitimized themselves through the academy (read her book Superior). I guess $700 MILLION DOLLARS in crypto money in one sitting gives you the resources to do that!

Everyone wants to sign their letters that they put out every few years.

Take a look at this manel which happened around their first letter 🙄 and ask yourself if you wanna be around these people.

If we're not in academia to create safe spaces, Black ...

2026-03-04T04:54:14Z

If we're not in academia to create safe spaces, Black graduate students get pushed out. If they, by some miracle, finish their PhDs despite the hurdles, it's accompanied by trauma and health issues. Honestly I'm so fed up that I'm trying to figure out if DAIR can create a university of some sort, seriously. Because it's so depressing seeing the state of affairs.

Almost every one of us have been through that. Ω

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2026-03-03T01:34:32Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116143354816433667

If you missed the live stream you can still watch the recording at https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
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"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the ...

2026-02-28T19:35:07Z

"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. ‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.

But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/the-cult-that-wants-to-give-human-rights-to-robots/

I have nothing good to say about Anthropic just like I have ...

2026-02-28T02:58:12Z

I have nothing good to say about Anthropic just like I have nothing good to say about Muskrat during his spat with the orange man, or any of the orange man's associates when he turns on them.

Anthropic knowingly partnered with the pentagon. Their other partner, Palantir, is probably the most evil tech company in the world, which, among other things, powers the ICE abductions of members of our communities. I can go on and on.

RE: https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/116123027316755259 ...

2026-02-24T02:10:09Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/116123027316755259

Super proud of journalists like Zecharias who are always with the people regardless of who the oppressor and oppressed are.

I make a small appearance in this investigative piece he produced.

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Hello friends,

If you missed it when it aired over the weekend, here is my TV production debut with Al Jazeera's The Listening Post. Over the course of four months, we investigated efforts by the Israeli government to whitewash genocide in Gaza and polish its reputation for African audiences. Israel began flying out journalists, social media influencers, even evangelical Christian singers to produce content from Israel.

We hold them to account with this program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23oLcWcoLI

In the last one they were allied through hate of Tigrayans, ...

2026-02-20T21:35:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…cx3y
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In the last one they were allied through hate of Tigrayans, jointly committing #TigrayGenocide. Now they're going at each other. Inconceivable after just having gone through deadliest war of the 21st century thus far.

My brain can't process that this is happening.

And so-called "international community" will only step in to stop victims from fleeing or to pillage the resources, continuing the cycle.

Ethiopia and Eritrea are preparing for full-scale war again. One ...

2026-02-20T21:34:17Z

Ethiopia and Eritrea are preparing for full-scale war again. One side backed by the UAE and the Nobel Peace Prize (thank you again for awarding the peace prize to a genocider), another side backed by Egypt and the Saudis. My whole life has been wars between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

It is inconceivable that these shameless people are going back to war, before people have even finished counting their dead from the last one.

I made the mistake of being interviewed for "The AI Doc," ...

2026-02-19T01:32:51Z

I made the mistake of being interviewed for "The AI Doc," and have learned my lesson on better vetting for next time.They even feature some explicit eugenicists (e.g. cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction).

They sprinkle some of us in like chocolate chips to perform ethics washing for the people they really wanted to platform. I don't recommend it.

But you can watch Ghost in the Machine Instead.

https://notaidoc.com

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate ...

2026-02-09T04:00:50Z

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news.

https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

So many in the U.S. left are falling over themselves to praise ...

2026-01-25T21:13:43Z

So many in the U.S. left are falling over themselves to praise Parenti, someone who was literally the chairman of the US section of the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic and deny his genocide.

Can I even say I'm "left" cause I don't want to be anywhere near this segment. They don't seem to have a genocide they don't cheer on as long as it doesn't seem to be primarily US backed.

Disgusting.