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Timnit Gebru on AI

4 quotes from Timnit Gebru on the wall, 2022 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include CNET, Right Livelihood, the Guardian.

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  1. 2026

  2. This is gross incompetence and negligence by a particular company

    News#safety

    Timnit Gebru, founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute, speaking to Democracy Now on October 1, 2026, disputed the 'rogue AI' narrative around recent security incidents.

    CNETMicrosoft President Says AI Has Fewer Regulations Than Milk. So Now What?

  3. Science can be infused with human rights

    News#science#politics

    Timnit Gebru, on receiving the 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her AI research, September 2026.

    Right LivelihoodPioneering AI researcher Timnit Gebru receives 2026 Right Livelihood Award for challenging concentrated power in technology - rightlivelihood.org

  4. Vatican-washing

    News#politics#culture

    Timnit Gebru, founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute, wrote on LinkedIn that Anthropic's alliance with Pope Leo XIV over AI harms was effectively 'Vatican-washing.'

    the GuardianAnthropic’s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or ‘Vatican-washing?’

  5. 2022

  6. They want to reorient the entire conversation into preventing this AI apocalypse

    News#safety#culture

    Timnit Gebru, AI researcher, criticizing the Future of Life Institute's focus on existential AI risk in an interview with POLITICO, November 2022.

    POLITICOStop the killer robots! Musk-backed lobbyists fight to save Europe from bad AI - politico.eu