Thread by @emilymbender

“I’ve been frustrated for a long time about the incentive structures that we have in place and how none of them seem to be appropriate for the kind of work I want to do,” -- @timnitGebru on the founding of @DAIRInstitute

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

@timnitGebru @DAIRInstitute “how to make a large corporation the most amount of money possible and how do we kill more people more efficiently,” Gebru said. “Those are […] goals under which we’ve organized all of the funding for AI research. So can we actually have an alternative?”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“AI needs to be brought back down to earth,” said Gebru, founder of DAIR. “It has been elevated to a superhuman level that leads us to believe it is both inevitable and beyond our control. >>

When AI research, development and deployment is rooted in people and communities from the start, we can get in front of these harms and create a future that values equity and humanity.” -- @timnitGebru, on the founding of @DAIRInstitute

dair-institute.org/press-release

@timnitGebru @DAIRInstitute Thank you, @timnitGebru for persevering and for your tireless work making this vision a reality. This is going to be amazing! (And it's going to be amazing at an appropriate, humane, livable pace.)