Timnit Gebru Calls AI Extinction Talk a Distraction; Ex-DeepMind Researcher Pushes Back

WIRED reports that AI critic Timnit Gebru argues extinction-risk talk is a deliberate distraction from real harms like autonomous weapons, a view contested by a former DeepMind researcher.

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