Grady Booch: new AI-risk longform overlooked early warners like Timnit Gebru and Gary Marcus
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-18
Journalist Hayden Field published a longform feature on "the ones who saw this coming" — AI safety researchers long warning about rogue AI risks, reported amid the OpenAI–Hugging Face attack news. Grady Booch respectfully pushed back that the piece ignored consistent early voices including Timnit Gebru, Melanie Mitchell, and Gary Marcus — and himself, warning for about a decade. The exchange highlights the credit dispute over who flagged AI risks first.
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