Notices by Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)

➡ @alshafei is the founding director of Majal.org, a network of online platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices in West Asia and North Africa. She also founded Surveillance Watch, an interactive map that exposes the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry. 2/

There is still time to register for the Color of Surveillance conference happening this Monday (both in person in DC and on livestream).

▶️ Register and find the program on the website: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/events/the-color-of-surveillance-surveillance-resistance/

My session will be a discussion with 3 amazing people.

➡ Rami Ibrahim is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational, grassroots, volunteer-led movement of Palestinian and Arab youth struggling for the liberation of their homeland./1

Who's writing about "frontier AI" being an apt name they've created to describe whatever they're doing, given how they wanna colonize everything?

🗣️ This Monday I’ll be moderating a conversation with these amazing women doing data work and researching its impacts: Kauna Malgwi, Botlhokwa Ranta, Fasica Gebrekidan & Milagros Miceli ( @milamiceli).

⏰ 9am PT/6pm CET.
➡️ Zoom: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Ani8O9hWqLxviqMUvxIGtz4aJEc9MyTM5jo8fL661elG2-VJg4b_~Ajq6glpXyOf_ZsujePxsiks98HIxPasb7ikstxjEXqwEiqr-EpfC_vJdTQ
➡️Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Let me tell you a little bit about who is joining me in this conversation. 🧵

Fasica Gebrekidan worked for 2 years as a content moderator for Meta via Sama in Nairobi, Kenya, until she was laid off for attempting to form a data workers’ union. She was moderating content related to #TigrayGenocide while being a victim of it at the same time. Imagine.

s it time to retire the Nobel Prize yet because at this point, I don't know what to say.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/leading-economists-suggest-ethereum-co-074433885.html

Remember our favorite manel saving "humanity" from the existential risks of magical "artificial general intelligence"? This nobel nominated cryptobro gave the Future of Life Institute, hosts of such manels, $665M.

Our favorite people in an epic TESCREAL manel. There's now, Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis, There's Elon Musk & Jaan Tallinn. Who could forget Nick Bostrom, so worried that stupid ppl (which he clarified Black ppl to be), are reproducing too much, resulting in an inferior race?

Q: What's better than this manel?
A: This manel's views backed up by a Nobel Prize.

Fond memories of the co-founder of this institute consulting Netanyahu to stop the extinction of "humanity"?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/25/a-665m-crypto-war-chest-roils-ai-safety-fight-00148621

Google wasted no time in using the Nobel prize to argue that its ok to steal data and exploit labor to train generative AI models.

➡ https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2024/10/10/mentioning-the-nobel-prizes-for-ai-research-google-asks-court-to-consolidate-leovy-and-zhang-suits/

And Geoff Hinton wasted no time in telling us how the Nobel prize will add credibility to his claims on LLMs understanding and more of his doomer stuff.

➡ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-icD_KmvnnM

Fun times ahead of us.

The Nobel committee out here doing the devil’s work. They've moved on from their specialty in awarding peace prizes to genociders, to now giving Hinton one in…physics?

So the news is gonna be "Nobel laureate" telling us that “super intelligent” text synthesis machines will render us extinct 🙄

This dude is now a "Nobel laureate."

"he said Gebru’s ideas “aren’t as existentially serious as the idea of these things getting more intelligent than us and taking over.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/amp/

"‘There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same, because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close,’ @olivia adds.

Indeed they're on their way to having us run out.

Read this paper by @Iris, Olivia Guest, Federico Adolfi, Ronald de Haan, Antonina Kolokolova & Patricia Rich.

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable

We received feedback from a grant application that included "While your impact metrics & thoughtful approach to addressing systemic issues in AI are impressive, some reviewers noted the inherent risks of navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players,"

AKA you can't do tech without BigTech's pervasive influence, as your mission statement states, in spite of your track record and in spite of their track record of harm.

Make. It. Make. Sense.

Zero patience for people who want to tell me about Europe not persecuting refugees and talking about “throwing bottles” as “crimes” when I spoon feed you in a thread exactly how and why the persecution is done. Take that denial and tone-policing elsewhere.

I find this strand of “we’re not racist in Europe” to be so insufferable everywhere but so prevalent on this damn platform.

And now "AI" is being used to persecute those most persecuted because they're against a government openly raising funds for its genocidal wars and terrorizing those in the diaspora as if what it does in Eritrea isn't enough. \5
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/escaping-eritrea/

The use of AI in policing is often experimented on the most vulnerable populations that are considered dispensable. If I'm to trust the translation, this article is talking about how "AI helped decisively to investigated by Eritrea festival." 🧵 \1
https://www.n-tv.de/regionales/hessen/KI-half-entscheidend-bei-Ermittlungen-nach-Eritrea-Festival-article25210556.html

Protestors against the Eritrean festival of hate, transnational repression & warmongering have been getting constantly persecuted, many of whom are new refugees who took incredibly perilous journeys (see @meronina
's short piece on the disappeared), \2
https://dair-institute.org/blog/eritreans/

...only to arrive at their new destinations being terrorized by the long arm of the government they thought they escaped.

We know the extent to which "AI" is experimented on refugees (e.g. read Petra Molnar's
's book "the walls have eyes", \3
https://thenewpress.com/books/walls-have-eyes

or "Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence" edited by Mizue Aizeki, @DocMattMoudi and Coline Schupfer. \4

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2326-resisting-borders-and-technologies-of-violence

These European countries preaching about democracy are acting like bouncers & henchmen of one of the most brutal governments in the world. Because Africans are savages, they describe these protests & riots in terms of "savage migrants ruining our pristine societies," using it to argue against refugee protections so they can rid themselves of those pesky Africans. \6

When you see this tech. & justification against Eritrean refugees & are silent, you're laying the groundwork for this persecution to be perfected on them before its used on you. \7