You wouldn't find Black people during Jim Crow or Apartheid South Africa arguing that one should *only do science* in the classroom & find me even one Palestinian making this claim at this moment. These statements always show who the privileged are vs those they oppress.
@timnitgebru
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Institute Challenges AI Hype With Podcast Debunking Series
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But I not only have outlined the roots and harms of the ideologies that you platform, my institute even has a podcast series dedicated to debunking AI Hype. We neither have the airtime nor the billions of the organizations you platform.
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Columns cause harm debunking AI risks requires focused effort
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You're right I misunderstood there. Unfortunately the harm you cause with these columns is too high & the amount of time we have to debunk everything point by point constantly is too limited compared to the deluge and the actual things we need to do to combat harms of AI.
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Journalists as Disinformation Sources: The Broligarchy Problem
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These so-called journalists parroting press releases are the biggest sources of the disinformation that has allowed the broligarchy the highest levels of centralizing power and control. Don't blame anyone else for killing journalism except for yourselves.
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CHI Paper on AI Ethics Narrated by Exiled Ethiopian Journalist
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And if you do nothing else, please watch this short video narrated by Fasica, the lead author of the CHI paper, Nuredin Ali, and exiled Ethiopian journalist @ZekuZelalem
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Academic Paper on AI and War Prevention at CHI
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Please send it over to anyone who will listen and can do something about it. Our people can’t afford another war. Our first academic paper on the topic will be presented at CHI in May:
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Language Technology Tools for Underserved Languages Partnership
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ALL social media is 4chan in these languages & contexts. We spent 3 years documenting failures. We had no language tech for this, not even spell checkers. So we partnered with @lesan_ai founded by @asmelashteka to create those tools.
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Content Moderation Ethics: Mental Health Crisis Amid Genocide
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and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded & moderating genocidal content targeting your people. One moderator saw his cousin being murdered in a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
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Content Moderators’ Working Conditions: Understanding the Human Cost
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We collaborated with content moderators like @Fasica2025 to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators. Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years,
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Google’s Content Moderation Gap in Under-resourced Languages
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I told people @ Google about this & asked them to build language technology & have human moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Although we were at Google, concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to be acknowledged.