Gebru resurfaces TESCREAL paper arguing the AGI project is rooted in eugenics traditions
PolarBearby · x · 2026-10-18
Timnit Gebru reshared her First Monday paper with Émile P. Torres, The TESCREAL bundle, quipping that AGI advocates' slides are only missing the word "eugenics."
Key arguments: AGI is an undefined system that cannot be safety-tested like conventional engineering; the normative drive behind building it traces to 20th-century Anglo-American eugenics, with discriminatory attitudes persisting in the movement under the language of "safety" and "benefiting humanity." The authors urge researchers to work on well-defined tasks with real safety protocols instead of an all-knowing AGI.
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