Timnit Gebru (she/her).

While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael Jordan and his interview calling this ridiculousness around fictional machine gods for what it is, let me share with you this essay he wrote in 2018 where he was similarly spot on.

With the success of deep learning, the deep learning philosophy has also permeated machine learning, which has little respect for actual engineering practices.

https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7

"I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources. The people in this story are not a secret society coordinating over dinner. They are a social scene: overlapping friendship groups, funding relationships, and sexual and romantic relationships, all of it threaded through the institutions asking you to trust them about AI regulation."

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse

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."

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing.

🔇 🔇 🔇 Reminder: These are the people advising Bernie Sanders on "AI" policy.

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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

Read this, and now remember that these are the people all over the news talking about the fictional "existential risks" of AI.

These are the people all over the UN, all over governments, including so-called "left" in the US.

These cults are the ones Bernie Sanders calls the world's "leading AI experts."

trigger warning sexual violence.

https://theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effective-altruism-kids-arent?r=8qt9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather because the hype DDOS strikes daily 🙄 As for the whole CRISPR Dario "discovery" announcement:

See below

By me and

.

"According to the AI industry, we should be more worried about a fictional machine god than about the climate catastrophe these data centers exacerbate, the asthma suffered by those living near them, the rising electricity bills of the public subsidizing them, or the water...[for] cooling them."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

Meanwhile, down here on earth, this is what's really happening while we're all forced to entertain the "super intelligent" machine god killing us cause its too smart 🙄

Best believe Anthropic & OpenAI sales people are lobbying hospitals to adopt these tools at full speed.

You think they're asking for regulation AGINST this stuff 🙄

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

Twitter is TESCREAL social media (for obvious reasons), which helps me see their talking points

1. Anyone pushing "stochastic parrots framing" shouldn't be taken seriously.

2. People "denying" the machine god narrative, like me, are akin to anti-vaxxers & climate deniers.

These are things they're saying to the left politicians they've captured, like Bernie Sanders who's being advised on "AI" by eugenicist doomsday cult leaders.

I wish we really were in a simulation like this people say 🙄

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."

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/

"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/

Thank you to people like

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/

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

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.

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

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117157917923413122

So well deserved 🎉 🎉 🎉

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

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.

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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🗣️🗣️🗣️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.

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.

"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

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.

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.

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. 🧵

Spot on. H/t Dagmar Monett.

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

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/

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.

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

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/

Another great piece by

"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/

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 🤷🏼

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“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/

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

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

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."

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

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116366642191544466

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RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116375683167638890

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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.

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

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

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/.

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.

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"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

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.

"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/

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

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116213345736660807

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What our tax dollars are paying for.

https://ceobs.org/black-rain-the-health-and-environmental-risks-from-tehrans-oil-fires/

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.

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/

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.

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

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

"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/

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.

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.

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.

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

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news.

https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

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.