Timnit Gebru slams AI-risk narrative: doomsday cults' made-up numbers called 'showing their work'
emilymbender · x · 2026-09-13
- Replying to Nate Silver's claim that AI-risk people "actually do show their work" with hundreds of working papers and thousands of LessWrong posts, Timnit Gebru fires back that the "eugenicist doomsday cults" setting the AI narrative are openly discussing children's rights to life while their self-referential blog posts pull numbers "out of asses."
- Emily Bender amplified the post, continuing her camp's critique of AI doomsday discourse — a fresh round in the ongoing public clash between AI safety advocates and their critics.
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