One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
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Timnit Gebru’s argument reframes the debate from extinction scenarios to present-day harms like autonomous weapons and labor exploitation. Governance conversations in your org will increasingly be judged on how they handle concrete externalities, not just long-horizon risk memos.
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