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2026-09-09 00:41:31 CEST

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."

2026-09-07 18:46:32 CEST

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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).

2026-09-07 18:46:24 CEST

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/

2026-09-06 03:41:16 CEST

"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/

2026-09-04 00:21:20 CEST

Thank you to people like @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/

2026-09-02 23:57:56 CEST

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

2026-08-28 17:21:35 CEST

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.

2026-08-26 04:44:46 CEST

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

2026-08-26 03:00:13 CEST

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117157917923413122
So well deserved 🎉 🎉 🎉
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2026-08-22 19:06:04 CEST

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

2026-08-21 16:05:54 CEST

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.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/117/133/876/097/220/456/original/9e9060b4ed736bc6.png

2026-08-19 05:55:23 CEST

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/

2026-08-14 00:25:43 CEST

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thank you!

2026-08-13 13:29:48 CEST

🔇 🔇 🔇 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?
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2026-08-07 00:49:56 CEST

🗣️🗣️🗣️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.

2026-08-01 15:40:10 CEST

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.

2026-07-30 04:08:40 CEST

"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

2026-07-24 16:26:10 CEST

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.

2026-07-22 23:11:04 CEST

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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.

2026-07-22 23:01:51 CEST

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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.

2026-07-22 23:01:48 CEST

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.

2026-07-21 17:36:03 CEST

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. 🧵

2026-07-07 05:17:46 CEST

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

2026-06-16 22:19:40 CEST

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/

2026-06-15 09:26:43 CEST

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.

2026-05-30 18:34:52 CEST

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

2026-05-30 16:59:24 CEST

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/

2026-05-29 21:21:05 CEST

Another great piece by @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/

2026-05-25 20:37:17 CEST

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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.

2026-05-25 20:14:20 CEST

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

2026-05-25 20:14:11 CEST

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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.

2026-05-25 20:11:33 CEST

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 🤷🏼

2026-04-30 16:56:46 CEST

Friends in New York, join us for a taping of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast LIVE TONIGHT with @npub1e2z…n97d & @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

2026-04-29 20:52:29 CEST

“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/

2026-04-27 19:54:25 CEST

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

2026-04-25 23:33:03 CEST

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

2026-04-21 20:21:39 CEST

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."

2026-04-21 04:58:44 CEST

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

2026-04-15 23:14:00 CEST

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 👇🏼
#note1xu2…5eju

2026-04-10 20:14:15 CEST

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116375683167638890
For those of you in Portland, this in person event is tomorrow.
#note1jxm…ruut

2026-04-08 04:07:27 CEST

🔇🔇🔇 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
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2026-04-02 05:17:06 CEST

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.
#note19wu…qvf2

2026-04-02 05:04:40 CEST

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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"?

2026-04-02 04:46:42 CEST

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Great article.

2026-04-02 04:09:38 CEST

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

2026-04-02 04:09:05 CEST

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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?

2026-04-02 04:07:17 CEST

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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/

2026-04-02 04:04:43 CEST

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

2026-03-28 00:01:39 CET

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 @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/.

2026-03-24 00:27:16 CET

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. 👇🏽
#note1qr4…c50s

2026-03-22 01:40:57 CET

"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

2026-03-20 20:09:07 CET

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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."

2026-03-20 20:08:59 CET

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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.

2026-03-20 20:08:47 CET

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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".

2026-03-20 20:06:53 CET

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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/.

2026-03-20 20:04:59 CET

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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

2026-03-20 20:04:44 CET

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.

2026-03-20 00:02:06 CET

"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/

2026-03-16 07:01:14 CET

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

2026-03-12 02:01:00 CET

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.
#note1qr4…c50s

2026-03-09 23:55:37 CET

What our tax dollars are paying for.
https://ceobs.org/black-rain-the-health-and-environmental-risks-from-tehrans-oil-fires/

2026-03-09 21:54:04 CET

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.
#note14kd…sk8q

2026-03-05 00:49:06 CET

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/
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2026-03-05 00:30:34 CET

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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/

2026-03-05 00:30:30 CET

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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.

2026-03-05 00:30:21 CET

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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

2026-03-05 00:30:01 CET

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.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/116/173/501/749/124/654/original/3f497cafbf87a437.jpeg

2026-03-04 05:54:14 CET

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

2026-03-03 02:34:32 CET

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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2026-02-28 20:35:07 CET

"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/

2026-02-28 03:58:12 CET

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.

2026-02-24 03:10:09 CET

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.
#note18su…q06h

2026-02-20 22:35:34 CET

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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.

2026-02-20 22:34:17 CET

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.

2026-02-19 02:32:51 CET

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

2026-02-09 05:00:50 CET

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news.
https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

2026-01-25 22:13:43 CET

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.

2026-01-07 18:59:08 CET

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Amazon, of course tried to discredit our work, but when Tekendra asked them what "complete data" would look like, as they said our research was based on "incomplete data", "the spokesperson did not respond to my follow-up on what Amazon considered complete data."
Of course.

2026-01-07 18:58:55 CET

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"By now we have become so accustomed to reports of exploitation of gig workers that it is almost quaint to think back to the mid-2000s when Big Tech marketed the gig economy as unshackling workers from the scrutiny of micromanaging bosses while bringing entrepreneurship to the masses."
Indeed.
He also discusses our report, by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, @npub1e2z…n97d & Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, on Amazon's wage theft through surveillance..
https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/

2026-01-07 18:57:31 CET

Tekendra Parmar writes about a fake reddit post that went viral, on how DoorDash treats its drivers. I said that I'd have believed the post cause it's close to how companies treat gig workers, like machines controlled through opaque algorithms.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doordash-deep-throat-scam-lays-bare-new-era-untruthiness-2026-1

2026-01-07 17:15:43 CET

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My papers are some of the most downloaded in a number of ACM's conferences and magazines.
While rich institutions have bought in, it seems like nearly every community college in America is locked out! Students, researchers, and practitioners are excluded from features necessary to navigate and understand the computing literature---features that were available to them free of charge a month ago.

2026-01-07 17:15:34 CET

Friends, at a time when science is under attack and people are economically hurting, the scientific community should work to make access easier not harder. @npub19mh…v9e6, Association for Computing Machinery, is doing the complete opposite by introducing paywalls that didn't exist.
Features that were previously free and open to the public are now "Premium
Access" features.
If you are opposed to this measure, join me in signing this petition asking the ACM to stop.
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restore-fully-free-and-open-access

2025-12-30 23:47:25 CET

RE: https://dair-community.social/@Meron/115790600643812539
Below is an excerpt from what I wrote before. Just think about where these monsters are sending these poor young people to.
"Eritrea boasts the longest detained journalist in the world, and with over 360 detention facilities (many underground) in a country of 45 kmi², the regime has disappeared all dissidents (even imprisoning them in shipping containers in temperatures that induce one’s skin to be stuck to the walls), with no due process or trial.
#note1wac…5mqf

2025-12-26 19:26:48 CET

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Either you build a good machine god or your extinct. That was their stance. And now they're doing satire here, rebranding as concerned citizens. Look at them here discussing "AI".
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/115/787/274/336/740/040/original/76806612a498972f.jpeg

2025-12-26 19:19:32 CET

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It's hard to trust any satire done by the Future of Life Institute, because whatever they say and do also sounds like satire until you know that they're dead serious.

2025-12-26 19:15:26 CET

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“We take our job of replacing humans in all economically viable work pretty dang seriously,” he added, reassuringly."
The Future of Life Institute was started by someone who believed that only the building of so-called AGI would stop us from the "cosmocalypse" BTW. And that even climate change didn't post an "existential risk to humanity," not even the collision of galaxies did, only AI. It's either utopia or apocalypse according to them and all because of "super intelligence."

2025-12-26 18:09:13 CET

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"Pressed on whether marketing an addictive AI chatbot to kids is ethical, Hardin shrugged: “I mean sure, but that’s not really our problem. That’s something parents or maybe lawmakers might want to look into.”
"AI safety" brought to you by the likes of The Future of Life Institute who are now armed with $700m+ thanks to crypto billionaires.

2025-12-26 18:09:09 CET

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This institute, cofounded by Musk, circulated an email about me not just internally but to their "partners" a couple of years ago when I started calling them out as eugenicists in the TESCREAL bundle, as we wrote in our paper.
They didn't name me but it was clear they were talking about me, hence the reason someone forwarded me the email.

2025-12-26 18:09:01 CET

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Other messaging includes insults like “stupid, smelly, squishy,” alongside the ominous statement: “It’s time for a human solution.”
KRON4 contacted Replacement AI and spoke with someone claiming to be the startup’s “humble unpaid intern,” Chase Hardin.
Coincidentally, Hardin shares a name with the communications director for the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on AI safety."
What did I tell you about so called "AI safety" and the Future of Life Institute?

2025-12-26 18:08:49 CET

"The ads, from a company calling itself Replacement AI, feature dark, dystopian taglines."
The ads, from a company calling itself Replacement AI, feature dark, dystopian taglines.
One reads: “AI does your daughter’s homework. Reads her bedtime stories. Romances her. Deepfakes her. Don’t worry. It’s totally legal.” Visitors to the Replacement AI website are greeted with a banner declaring, “Humans are no longer necessary.”
‘Stupid. Smelly. Squishy.’
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/if-this-is-a-joke-the-punchline-is-on-humanity-replacement-ai-blurs-line-between-parody-and-tech-reality/

2025-12-23 00:20:05 CET

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Good thing we didn't. I'd say that was a win for "open science." The hypocrisy. Maybe don't use your power to order researchers to retract papers you don't find to be sufficiently full of hype if you claim to care about "open research"?

2025-12-23 00:20:00 CET

I see that Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he apparently cares about "open science" or "open research" or some such. That's news to me.
He is the Google VP who wrote a condescending, bizarre, what was meant to be anonymous, "privileged and confidential" letter which was then sent to the HR department, instructing me and my coauthors to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.

2025-12-22 18:33:32 CET

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Techniques using statistical ML weren't bucketed under "AI" when those techniques weren't the things that showed high performance on whatever tasks people thought were "AI" tasks in the 80s.
Are decision trees "AI" now? How about 40 years ago? What's the difference?

2025-12-22 18:33:28 CET

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Those in signal processing may know the level to which the much more hypes field of machine learning uses so many concepts from information theory. But machine learning wasn't "AI" before.
Even under ML, are kernel techniques AI? Or is it just neural networks and the term "deep learning" which I learned was created to avoid the stigma around "neural networks" that existed in ML before?

2025-12-22 18:33:22 CET

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Is logistic regression "AI"? What about convex optimization? Are LLMs AI? What about an image recognition system built without using "feature learning" techniques but done through "feature engineering"?
Is the resulting model AI or the technique that is used to build the model or the task that said model is solving? What about statistics? Is that "AI"? Which parts of it are "AI" vs not? What about information theory?

2025-12-22 18:33:04 CET

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Now, ChatGPT is bucketed under the same term as a model trained to translate a specific language into another and which is carefully trained through curated data.
This model is also bucketed under the same term as a plant recognition tool built exclusively to do that task and trained and evaluated only on data related to that task.
This tool is also bucketed under the same term as the different types of techniques that are used to train the model used in the tool vs the resulting tool itself.

2025-12-22 18:32:37 CET

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all being bucketed under "AI", is misleading. This is why @npub15xv…0jms and @npub1e2z…n97d say to name the specific thing being discussed rather than calling it "AI". 🧵

2025-12-12 04:48:29 CET

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, writes that my collaborator and I warned about these eugenicists a few years ago and were called all sorts of names. As she writes, we were "treated as extremists and conspiracy theorists." Even so-called "critics" of large language models came for me unsummoned as I spoke up about this. Marcus and LeCun were on the same side on this one, the side of attacking me for calling out these eugenicists.
https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-late

2025-12-10 21:53:20 CET

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who actually told you so.
And then it will be rinse and repeat, onto the next grift.

2025-12-05 22:21:40 CET

Friends, given what is happening in the US, take a bit of time to read this wonderful article about Ariel Koren and
Respond Crisis Translation where @npub1e2z…n97d and I are on the board. Ariel was pushed out of Google for uncovering Project Nimbus, Google's collaboration with the Israeli military on cloud services and "AI."
RCT is on the frontlines of protecting immigrants being hunted down around the country. Please support RCT if you have the money or tell others in your .
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/respond-crisis-translation-shows-interpretation-importance/article_38a48ab8-5501-4418-8149-8482095f70eb.html