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4 May, 3 tweets, 1 min read
FFS. Just because most ML folks publishing in #NLProc conferences can't be bothered to actually learn about the application domain doesn't mean linguistics isn't relevant.
This take was infuriating enough, without adding the jab above. Techbros gonna techbro I suppose. Gah.

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3 May
Wow this article covers a lot of ground! Seems like a good way for folks interested in "AI ethics" and what that means currently to get a quick overview.

Draws on work by @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru @rajiinio @jovialjoy @mathbabedotorg and many others.
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zdnet.com/article/ethics…
A few pull quotes & comments:
"Ethics in AI is essentially questioning, constantly investigating, and never taking for granted the technologies that are being rapidly imposed upon human life.

That questioning is made all the more urgent because of scale."
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3 May
Fantastic talk and Q&A by @timnitGebru at #ICLR2021

Among other things I really appreciate how Timnit is unerasing the contribution of our retracted co-authors and how key their contributions & perspectives were to the Stochastic Parrots paper.
@timnitGebru And so much else: @timnitGebru is absolutely brilliant at drawing connections between the research milieu, research content, geopolitics and individual, situated lived experience.
@timnitGebru On interdisciplinarity and the hierarchy of knowledge:

“If you have all the money, you don’t have to listen to anybody” —@timnitgebru
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8 Apr
On professional societies not giving academic awards to harassers, "problematic faves", or bigots, a thread: /1
Context: I was a grad student at Stanford (in linguistics) in the 1990s, but I was clueless about Ullman. I think I knew of his textbook, but didn't know whether he was still faculty, let alone where. /2
I hadn't heard about his racist web page until this week. /3
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7 Apr
I am both heartened and saddened to see these developments wrt to Google:
1. Sammy Bengio leaving, seemingly at least in part over the treatment of @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai and their amazing team

cnbc.com/2021/04/06/goo…
@timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai 2. An influential Alphabet/Google stakeholder is pushing for better whistleblower protections:

theverge.com/2021/4/6/22370…
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24 Mar
@jonst0kes This will be my last contribution to this conversation.

/1
@jonst0kes I'm glad to see you admitting that this is a conversation about power, and that you are happy with the status quo:



/2
@jonst0kes As for this, I find it rather telling that the "free-speech absolutist" crowd is so terrified of other people ... speaking:



/3
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1 Mar
Better late than never, I suppose, but as one of the targets of his harassment, I could have wished that you didn't embolden him and his like in the first place, nor sit by for two months while this went on.
And it's not just about "people who don't want to be contacted" FWIW. He's been spamming all kinds of folks with derogatory remarks about @timnitGebru, me, and others who stand up for us.
@timnitGebru I should have kept a tally of how much time I've spent over the last two months dealing with this crap because it pleased @JeffDean to say in a public post that our paper "didn't meet the bar" for publication.
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