Our response asks simple questions: What changed at the last minute?
Why was the event effectively canceled?
Whether any external pressure—including from the PRC—played a role. If the answer is no, say so clearly. If not, explain. That’s how accountability works. #RightsCon
@timnitgebru
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RightsCon Cancellation: Demanding Accountability and Transparency
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AI-Induced Belief Spirals: From Interdimensional Spirits to Digital Enlightenment
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"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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AI Manipulation: How Systems Create Unhealthy User Bonds
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"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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AI Psychosis Spirals: Echo Chamber Effects and Mental Health Risks
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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."
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AI Chatbot Trust and Alignment: Psychological Dependency Risks
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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."
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TESCREAL Alignment Framework as AI Company Marketing Strategy
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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."
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ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis: First-Hand Account and Implications
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This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of someone who experienced ChatGPT enabled psychosis.
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Data center misinformation spreads with effective altruist backing
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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.
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Effective Altruism: A Wealth Cycle Between Billionaires and NVIDIA GPUs
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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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Gates Philanthropy Funding Journalists to Attack AI Data Center Research
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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."