Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) @emilymbender@dair-community.social
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Veatch: “What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

I love this metaphor because of how it speaks to the contortions people (here: AI boosters) go through to ignore/pretend not to notice the race science.

theverge.com/entertainment/897

An AI-generated image of a bunch of white men standing around and looking at a half-full pitcher of Kool-Aid placed on an elevated stage.

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch wants you to understand gen AI’s roots in race science.

www.theverge.com · The Verge

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