Proposal to make Timnit Gebru an independent AI evaluator sparks pushback
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-13
After a proposal that Timnit Gebru should serve as one of the independent AI evaluators, a widely shared reply argues that if you want to counterbalance a group, you could spend five minutes choosing someone other than the most obvious bad-faith candidate. The exchange underscores factional divides over who should audit frontier AI labs.
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