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So, the other "godfather" of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align himself with the #TESCREAL bundle, writing a thing about "rogue AI" and prominently citing people like Nick Bostrom.

Take a good look at this text here. This is written by non other than Nick Bostrom, prominently featured by so many of these fathers and godfathers and sons and brothers and nephews of "AI" (given that its all men you know).

David Musick: I have always liked the uncompromisingly objective way of thinking and speaking: the more counterintuitive and repugnant a formulation, the more it appeals to me given that it is logically correct. Take for example the following sentence: Blacks are more stupid than whites. I like that sentence and think it is true. But recently I have begun to believe that I won't have much success with most people if I speak like that. They would think that I were a "racist": that I _disliked_ black people and thought that it is fair if blacks are treated badly. I don't. It's just that based on what I have read, I think it is probable that black people have a lower average IQ than mankind in general, and I think that IQ is highly correlated with what we normally mean by "smart" and stupid". I may be wrong about the facts, but that is what the sentence means for me. For most people, however, the sentence seems to be synonymous with: I hate those bloody niggers!!!! My point is that while speaking with the provocativness of unabashed objectivity would be appreciated by me and many other persons on this list, it may be a less effective strategy in communicating with some of the people "out there". I think it is laudable if you accustom people to the offensiveness of truth, but be prepared that you may suffer some personal damage. Niklas Bostrom n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

That's right "Blacks are more stupid than whites" and then he proceeds to call us the N word. That's not even the worst of it, because his entire career has been "raising awareness" about "dysgenic pressures" (the opposite of eugenic pressures), as existential risks to humanity. That is, those of us who are "stupider than mankind as a whole" reproducing too much and creating an inferior race.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

He feels ZERO need to hide any of this shit because he does it in the worst "scholarspeak" ever, until his very clear email came out. Then he had an even worse apology. We knew there would be ZERO consequences (ahhh the awful "cancel culture" amiright?), and Oxford students protested. Literally weeks after that the The New York Times just profiled him a couple of months ago.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

AFTER all that, the Future of Life institute, co-founded by Musk and Max Tegraf (you can read here about the latter's Nazi funding & I don't have anything more to say about Elmo: lnkd.in/gC6m4Y4s), get to write a letter having the who's who of "AI" signing something about pausing it and saving humanity, also citing Bostrom (how wonderful). Now Yoshua who also signed that letter, writes another blogpost about "existential risk" also citing Bostrom.

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The Future of Life Institute said that a failure of vetting led to the grant offer to the Swedish far-right media platform "Nya Dagbladet," but it was revoked once they realised their extremist ideology.
Tim Hume (VICE)
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

The entire foundation of this field is the most racist shit I've ever seen. The more I learn the more bizarre it gets. And your favorites, OpenAI + co. are most influenced by, you guessed it, Nick Bostrom. "Altman has written about the influence Nick Bostrom...the "father" of longtermist thought, has had on him and his work": lnkd.in/gsVwrpJM

Is OpenAI's Sam Altman building a tech dream or a sci-fi nightmare?

With the success of ChatGPT, Altman has turned into a household name. And he's just getting started.
Melia Russell (Insider)
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