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Timnit Gebru: AI Funding Echoes Tobacco Industry Tactics

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Timnit Gebru has drawn a parallel between the current AI industry's funding and public relations strategies and those historically employed by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. She suggests that major companies and billionaires are funding "independent" institutes, which then produce reports cited as expert consensus. This tactic, according to Gebru, aims to create a false sense of agreement and legitimacy around their initiatives. AI

IMPACT Raises concerns about the potential for manufactured consensus in AI research and policy discussions.

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Timnit Gebru: AI Funding Echoes Tobacco Industry Tactics

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · timnitgebru.blacksky.app ·

    There are many many stories here.

    There are many many stories here. One of them, is that this is straight out of the tobacco & fossil fuel playbook. Have the same companies and billionaires fund "independent" institutes staffed by the same people, and "cite" their reports as "independent experts" showing "conse…

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