Incredibly excited to tell y'all about a project I've been working on for nearly a year with my Data & Society colleague Jenna Burrell, PhD: a special issue of First Monday, 'Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power'. Every article of the 8 is a banger. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

This critique of AI Safety is right on the money.

An unwillingness to challenge corporate power even as people say a pause needs to seriously happen.

Or lobbying for “differentiated development” even as these AI corps recklessly scale on.

It’s internally inconsistent.

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This whole issue looks SO INCREDIBLY GOOD!

If you care about AI, power, AI and Power, good scholarship, etc.

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Since I've quit ML and am no longer surrounded by AI bros, it's become so clear that the Big Names in this field just got lucky that their niche expertise happened to be useful to Big Tech. When it comes to the important questions, they have no clue what they're talking about

I'm so very excited that this paper is finally out! DAIR has a webpage dedicated to the topic of TESCREALism (see Dr. Gebru's thread👇), and I will soon publish a TESCREAL FAQ that addresses the most common questions that folks have about the idea! What do you think? Would love

Gotta check out this paper plus the whole special issue of First Monday which is all bangers by so many of the best radical thinkers about power and AI.

Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (Dr. Émile P. Torres), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
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This is one of the most important papers for anyone interested in (or appalled by, either way) 'AI' to read. So glad it is out!

Drs. Gebru and Torres have authored an absolute BANGER of a paper that exposes the intellectual (if you can call it that) lineage of the 'artificial general intelligence' ( #AGI ) movement. We're blessed to have such thoughtful researchers working in the public interest! Read it!👍🏽

Looking forward to reading this issue including the much-awaited article on the #TESCREAL bundle by @[email protected] on Mastodon & Dr. Émile P. Torres, alongside other pieces that look fascinating on #xrisk #AI #robots #digital #colonialism firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

The TESCREAL Bundle: Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia Through Artificial General Intelligence by @[email protected] on Mastodon and Dr. Émile P. Torres 🔥

I've been waiting for this paper to drop for a long time. Will be sharing it with everyone, everywhere.

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Henry Wallis Commentary Dr. Émile P. Torres is THE person for all things TESCREAL (transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, EA & longtermism)

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@[email protected] on Mastodon Dr. Émile P. Torres 👏👏👏
Great resource for the classroom; essential read for all.
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Elon Musk X Safety Support Premium why am I search-suggestion shadowbanned (again again again)? I thought this was the platform for free speech??

Made a new account phuckfilosophy and this was my attempt to find and follow this main account. What’s up?

Just underlining what Dr. Gebru says here: thanks so much to everyone who provided comments and criticisms of earlier drafts. You made the paper *much better* than it otherwise would have been. Really appreciated. THANKS. :-)

Yes, thanks to both of you for making this special issue happen. Couldn't be more proud to be a part of such an amazing collection of articles! The introduction by Jenna Burrell and Jacob Metcalf is also REALLY good--highly recommended!!

We'll probably add to this page, dair-institute.org/tescreal/, as we find new articles on the topic. I hope you find the paper to be informative. On my end, I will never read this paper again lol. Got so tired of editing at some point 😫

This issue has a set of terrific papers by our colleagues. I suggest you read all the papers.

We also have a webpage on the TESCREAL bundle: dair-institute.org/tescreal/, including my talk on this paper, Emile’s articles, & some other articles on, e.g., eugenics & statistics.