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Gebru: AI 'existential risk' narrative is harmful marketing, not scienceHacker News shares Gebru interview
2 Sep 29 7:04 AM · 15d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 2 of 2
The interview gains traction on Hacker News, where a post links to the Wired article.
“I would even go farther than that and say that it's dangerous. It's not just a distraction, but it's harmful.”
Timnit Gebru, AI researcher and critic · mastodon ↗Timnit Gebru AI researcher and criticLauren Goode Wired journalistGoogle Former employerAnthropic AI company
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 3 claims were published in its stretch
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2 outlets Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
first by Mastodon, 13d ago · also Wired
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1 outlet The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
first by Mastodon, 13d ago
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first by Wired, 15d ago
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AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity." "If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that." When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies…
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there is risk in all directions, every single action state contains it's own risk profile. AI CEOs avoiding oversight has to be weighed against state sponsored initiatives that don't . OpenAI and Anthropic can slam the brakes on, but that doesn't mean China will. I'm not painting China as the "bad men" here, for the most part they've been very…
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Researcher @timnitgebru.blacksky.app says Silicon Valley discourse about the supposed "existential risks" of artificial intelligence is part of a ploy to avoid regulation of the industry.
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REQUIRED READING ❝ You have to pay attention to what they say in the news cycles. When they say that # AI can cause an existential risk, they also say that AI can stop climate change, bring us world peace, and eradicate poverty. AI can do all of these things because it’s powerful. It can bring us utopia… what you’re speaking to, first of all, is…
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Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
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2 Another example of gross incompetence from techbros: "The U.S. almost started World War 3 with China by relying on.. fabricated information from a chatbot." The chatbot gave "fake information saying that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons." And the US military was ready with planes, soldiers to intercept... board the…
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We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence.
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What are the Tech bros after? No regulation & endless funding from the public purse. They say their "Good AI" will help fight off "Bad AI" if we fund them to the max & let them do whatever they like. "If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, 'Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?' And really, AI is no different than that"…
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI Company CEOs, AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says # TruthOut
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#TimnitGebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From #AI — One of AI's fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. — AI debate is no longer just about the technology itself, but about ideological groups and strategic narratives, and Gebru believes these narratives are “harmful distraction”…
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Whatever # AISafety Is, It’s Not This Asking # ai companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something. # selfregulation https://www. wired.com/story/whatever-ai-sa fety-looks-like-its-not-this/
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AI is a tool and WE are its makers and fully responsible… that especially applies to the CEO’s and founders of the related companies… https://www. democracynow.org/2026/10/1/tim nit_gebru_ai
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