Timnit Gebru's same quote, three years apart: extinction talk distracts from real AI harms
austinc3301 · x · 2026-09-12
A WIRED piece features Timnit Gebru arguing that AI companies stoke extinction fears to dodge real harms like autonomous weapons. A resurfaced quote from August 2023 shows she made the same argument then, citing data protection and worker exploitation instead — the rhetoric unchanged, only the example swapped.
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