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Timnit Gebru criticizes AI hype and cult-like influence

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Timnit Gebru expresses frustration with the current AI discourse, stating she has been making similar points for over a decade. She criticizes the public's fascination with "fictional machine gods" and highlights her role in presenting counter-evidence. Gebru also laments the influence of "effective altruist" and "TESCREAL cult" members in Congress, predicting the creation of new billionaires from upcoming IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic. AI

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Timnit Gebru criticizes AI hype and cult-like influence

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

    Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dyn

    Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized by talk of fictional machine gods and it's me who has to bring evidence to the cont…

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

    Even more depressing than the knowledge that congress is now overrun by effective altruist and overall TESCREAL cult member staffers, is the number of billionai

    Even more depressing than the knowledge that congress is now overrun by effective altruist and overall TESCREAL cult member staffers, is the number of billionaires in these cults that are going to be created by the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.

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