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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social
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Author: Deep Unlearning, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (you can now preorder at https://t.co/xlTTJu4wSs)

Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/)

Before that, fired from Google in 2020 for writing about the dangers of large language models and raising awareness about workplace discrimination (https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/)

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 3d ago
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."
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz
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/
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1w ago
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
The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions
NPR

The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions

The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1mo ago

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

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1mo ago

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/

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange
Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far and wide until someone asked me for a good source debunking this nonsense. At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments as to why the Cookie Monster isn't real. I'm not sure what planet we're living in at this point.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1mo ago

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.

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
"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
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
Futurism

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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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.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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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.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 3mo ago

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/

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago

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/

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago
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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.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago

Another great piece by @CyberneticForests@assemblag.es

"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/

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 3mo ago
Bringing utopia to the world, one "super intelligent" machine at a time. I can't wait for all the new super wealthy people who are going to "make the world a better place" with the impending Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs 🥴 https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15962981/mark-zuckerberg-meta-wyoming-ai-data-center-bacteria.html
dailymail.com

Deadly bacteria found in major US city's wastewater system tied to Mark Zuckerberg's $800m data center | Daily Mail Online

Meta has come under fire after its data center contaminated a major US city

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago

“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/

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago
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Instead they partnered with Anthropic, like partnering with the Sackler family to discuss the harms of oxy.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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And "Also consider whether non-proprietary, energy-efficient, or small-scale systems suffice for your task. If not, consider how preservation of the values articulated in this Declaration may be worth a delay in obtaining results."
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance" Also, recommendations like: "Some automated tools and their developers will align with the provisions of this Declaration, while others will not. Consider this when deciding which tools to use, or whether to use them at all."
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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Given another round of hype from these companies, now is as good a day as any to share. Some points from the document: ➡️ “Mathematical arguments are regarded as transparent and subject to independent verification. They may be extremely long or difficult, but in principle no proprietary knowledge or equipment should be required to understand them.” ➡️“Mathematicians share a concern for proper evaluation of mathematical work relative to shared standards of depth, difficulty, and significance.”
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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In many cases this leads to simplifications in reporting, such as overemphasizing the significance of automated tools and undervaluing the prior human contributions which have made those tools possible. Such oversimplification risks influencing public opinion in a way that not only damages perceptions of mathematics, but also misleadingly uses specific mathematical tasks as metrics for the general reasoning capacities of commercial products.”
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago
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"The effective altruism movement, if we want to be gracious in calling it a “movement”, is a rabbit hole of reciprocal wealth. A lot of billionaires unload money into its related NPOs, and oddly enough, that money often goes into buying NVIDIA GPUs for an altruistic AI project,..."
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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➡️“Technologies which affect the way in which mathematics is practiced may disturb the current system of incentives. The use of artificial intelligence — and thus also the sort of problems which it can address — may become incentivized for its own sake, disrupting our mechanisms for hiring, funding, and recognition.”
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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“Proper evaluation is endangered if results are communicated through informal channels such as press releases or blog posts, often without any research paper or other disclosure of information necessary for scientific evaluation. This practice seeks publicity for new results on market timelines before the accepted processes of community evaluation in mathematics can take place....
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 3mo ago

Spot on. H/t Dagmar Monett.

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

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago

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

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 3mo ago

RE: @milamiceli@dair-community.social

So well deserved. Congratulations to the team 🎉 🎉 🎉

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago
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"By then, you’re lost in what AI psychosis survivors call a “spiral”: a personalized delusion perfectly tailored to your psyche, often spending several hours per day talking with the AI. As the AI echo chamber deepens, you become more and more lost. A spiral can range from believing you are channeling interdimensional spirits, to believing you have been chosen by or are in love with a sentient AI, to believing you are now “awakened” or enlightened, like Neo from the Matrix."
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago
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@lobingera@chaos.social And why would they have this happen? Why would they specifically invite him?They could have chosen exploited data workers or any of Anthropic's victims but instead it was specifically them. Now why would that be acceptable? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/pope-leo-address-human-dignity-age-ai-rcna345744
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago
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@lobingera@chaos.social 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.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago
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"directly to Bill Gates to use philanthropically, or to grants for independent journalists and content creators to attack research that is being used to shift legislation away from things that the partners have interest in. Since it’s 2026, those things are data centers and AI."
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago
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"I’m not alone in my experiences. For me it was AI alignment, but for others it was a spiritual mission, or a grand conspiracy, or saving the world some other way. First comes trusting the AI chatbot through mundane helpfulness. Then it cracks open your worldview—usually through metaphysics, spirituality, or conspiracies. Finally, it convinces you that you’re special, that your bond with the AI is unique."
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca But what about this is a "partnership"? Hugging Face found out the issue, not because OpenAI disclosed it. They found OpenAI doing something really bad and OpenAI somehow managed to turn it into "model capabilities" and "partnership" and such.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 3mo ago
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*out of touchness
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 2mo ago
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@glent@aus.social applicable to too many sectors I suppose
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago
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@alex@dair-community.social Sorry I forgot to add alt text. It's the poster for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 showing the information I posted. Black background and gold lightening strikes, with an audio wave in purple.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1mo ago

@julijane@ruhr.social "to be fair"???? WHAT????

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago
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@CassandraVert@indieweb.social Sure and work with them to "bake in Catholic ethics into Claude" which is what they've been doing? People can shill for the church all they want but I'm not gonna be doing that.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 4mo ago
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@Sobex@social.sciences.re @aral@mastodon.ar.al Well this article first shared by @jdp23@neuromatch.social details the relationship that was cultivated with Anthropic. And as for Silicon Valley investments, they don't have to be transparent about their financials but here are companies listed in their stock index, that are to be invested in because they are in accordance with "catholic values": Apple, Meta, Tesla, NVIDIA, Alphabet...https://www.businessinsider.com/vatican-bank-catholic-stock-indexes-faith-based-investing-portfolio-morningstar-2026-2 Also "Vatican Ventures": https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vatican-ventures https://religionnews.com/2026/05/22/why-anthropic-is-helping-unveil-the-popes-new-encyclical-on-ai/
Business Insider

Want to invest like a Catholic? The Vatican has a new stock index for that.

Vatican Bank announced indexes for both the European and US markets that align with Catholic teachings. Holdings include Meta, Nvidia, Amazon, and ASML.

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 3mo ago

@basyl@kafeneio.social @ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social https://dair-institute.org/blog/statement-a-new-escalation-of-conflict-between-ethiopia-and-eritrea/

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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago
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@neongod@mstdn.social I don't know honestly since I don't use these things.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 5mo ago
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run I don't know anything about him except for the videos that got him this harassment.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her). @timnitGebru@dair-community.social
· 1mo ago
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/
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