![]() Gebru expressed concern that AGI is promoted by “paradise engineers” as a means to abolish all of humanity’s suffering forever, while others fear that humans will lose control over AGI and find themselves in an apocalyptic scenario. “ has roots in first wave eugenics Secondly, both talk about utopia and apocalypse,” she said. Gebru drew parallels between AI, eugenics and transhumanism, (the latter of which refers to enhancing human longevity and cognition). “My question is, utopia for whom? Who is getting this utopian life that is promising ?” Gebru said. She referenced text-to-image models’ being used to execute harassment campaigns, create “ deep fakes,” and overly sexualize women and girls. Gebru has published articles about the exploitation of labor behind AI, as well as the potential for abuse of the burgeoning technology. They can’t do that, and even if they could, is that really what we want?” “ builds systems like they have one model for everything. “Why attempt to build some undefined system that kind of sounds like a god?” she asked the audience of around 150 Stanford students and affiliates. AGI can complete all tasks it is asked of, whereas AI is meant to complete only specific tasks. ![]() Gebru’s talk centered on the risks of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). According to its website, DAIR is “rooted in the belief that AI is not inevitable, its harms are preventable and when its production and deployment include diverse perspectives and deliberate processes, it can be beneficial.” She went on to found the DAIR Institute, which aims to mitigate the harms of AI, in 2021. These algorithms, which Gebru had argued posed risks of financial harm and bias, use large datasets to translate and generate text. In December 2020, Gebru was fired from her position as co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI research team after refusing to withdraw an as-yet-unpublished article about the dangers of Large Language Models. Gebru is the Founder and Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) and co-founder of the nonprofit to help with visibility and inclusion for Black people, Black in AI. ’17, a leader of the movement for diversity in tech and artificial intelligence, spoke about the dangers of AI at a Symbolic Systems department-sponsored event on Wednesday night.
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