Timnit Gebru slams Effective Altruists as 'white saviors' in clash with Kelsey Piper
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-07
AI researcher and DAIR founder Timnit Gebru publicly clashed with Vox journalist Kelsey Piper on X, calling the Effective Altruist movement "eugenicist, IQ obsessed, racist and sexist" and arguing it hides behind the justification of "helping Africans" — the same rhetoric, she says, used by colonial-era white saviors. Piper pushed back that people are being led to denounce "donating money to healthcare for the poor" as evil, reaffirming her support for global health giving. Gebru ended the exchange saying she won't engage with effective altruists, exposing a deep rift in the AI safety community over EA and colonial discourse.
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