AI Doomers and Real-World Harms
Examine the differences between AI doomers and those documenting the real-world harms of AI systems, such as discrimination, surveillance, pollution of the information ecosystem, data theft, and labor exploitation.
@emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon
Professor, Linguistics, UW // Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS) // she/her // @emilymbender@dair-community.social
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I'm so tired of this argument. The "AI doomers" are not natural allies of the folks who have been documenting the real-world harms of so-called AI systems: discrimination, surveillance, pollution of the information ecosystem, data theft, labor exploitation.
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023
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Those harms are real, they're being done by people to people using technology.
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023
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When we push back against the ridiculous distraction tactics of the AI doomers on their media tour and then get told to "be nice" it's like telling folks working on addressing climate change to allocate time & resources to oil companies raising concerns about contrails.
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023
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If AI doomers were actually "natural allies" of those out here working on actual harms, then folks like Hinton and Bengio would be using their platforms to lift up the work of people like Gebru, Benjamin, Noble, Raji, etc.
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023
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If AI doomers were actually "natural allies" of those out here working on actual harms, OpenAI would follow well established best practices and actually document their damn data.
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023
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Piously pretending to be the "good guys" calling for "unity" and finger wagging at anyone calling out the AI doomer BS is bad-faith both-sidesism and also completely naïve when it comes to power analysis.
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023
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Look at who is documenting the actual harms and putting in the work to address them (through advocacy, policy work, and technical interventions) vs. who is taking their fainting couch on tour to fret about their life's work leading to "extinction".
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023
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If you're asking someone for allyship, that ask needs to go to the powerful johnny-come-latelys who are out there provoking hysteria about imagined scenarios rather than supporting the work that has been going on addressing real harms.
— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) June 3, 2023