Timnit Gebru: AI doom talk 'is meant to distract us' from real harms like autonomous weapons
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-11
WIRED covers AI critic Timnit Gebru amid a week of drama: OpenAI accused of leveraging others' work on a million-dollar math problem, and an Anthropic researcher publicly quitting over safety concerns while a colleague claimed >10% decade-scale extinction risk. Gebru argues AI companies stoke extinction fears to dodge discussion of actual harms like autonomous weapons, with undertones of regulatory capture and self-aggrandizement. Formerly pushed out of Google after a rejected paper on LLM dangers, she has a book coming, 'Deep Unlearning.'
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