Timnit Gebru resurfaces Michael Jordan's 2018 essay debunking machine-god hysteria
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-14
Timnit Gebru shared that Michael Jordan — "the ML Michael Jordan" — called out the hysteria around "fictional machine gods" in a recent interview, and resurfaced his 2018 essay where he was similarly spot-on in criticizing AGI doom narratives.
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