Timnit Gebru Resurfaces 2015 Warning: AI's Real Risk Is Its Homogeneous Builders
MilagrosMiceli · x · 2026-09-17
Timnit Gebru, while reviewing book proofs, revisited a quote she wrote in 2015: her concern about AI's future stems not from rogue machines taking over, but from "the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology." A decade later, the critique of who builds AI reads as more relevant than ever.
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