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Timnit Gebru criticizes AI safety funding and narratives

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Timnit Gebru, a prominent AI researcher, has criticized the narrative surrounding AI safety, particularly the large sums of money being invested by billionaires and AI safety advocates. She suggests that these efforts, often framed as preventing existential threats, are akin to a "kiddy pool" compared to the scale of the problem, implying a disconnect between the perceived urgency and the actual impact or motivations. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about the motivations and effectiveness of large-scale AI safety funding and advocacy.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice criticizing the AI safety field.

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Timnit Gebru criticizes AI safety funding and narratives

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

    All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of mill

    All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the 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 😂 www.npr.org/20…

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