Timnit Gebru: A bestseller will one day expose how everyone excused AI firms' exploitation
iamKierraD · x · 2026-09-04
Prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru predicts that someone will eventually write a bestseller dissecting this era, arguing the public has been misled to fear AI's 'powerful creations' rather than the exploitation, theft, and incompetence of the companies building it.
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