Timnit Gebru: AI firms stoke extinction fears to dodge real harms like autonomous weapons
gleech · x · 2026-09-12
In a WIRED interview, Timnit Gebru argues AI companies hype extinction scenarios to distract from present-day harms such as algorithmic bias and autonomous weapons. Quoting her, @catehall notes the irony: autonomous weapons themselves were once used as a talking point to avoid discussing algorithmic bias.
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