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The paper by Gebru and Torres of April 2024 argues that those it calls “TESCREALists” use the language of “safety” to drive resources into building AGI, which harms marginalised groups, and then to dissuade investigations into those harms and divert resources into preventing a “hypothetical AGI apocalypse”, and that their influence has led policy-makers and researchers to prioritise the AGI agenda while siphoning resources away from task-specific systems. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-04-01 · publication Records dated 2024 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The paper's argument concerns the pursuit of AGI and its intellectual lineage; the "TESCREAL" grouping is the authors' own term. It records what the paper argues, not a classification of the people it names.
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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence ↗ First Monday 29(4) (firstmonday.org) · 2024-04-01
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Source excerpt “TESCREALists use the language of “safety” to first drive resources into the goal of building AGI, which in turn causes harm to marginalized groups, and then use the language of “safety” to dissuade investigations into those harms and once again divert resources into preventing a hypothetical AGI apocalypse.” Location in source Section 6, closing paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Timnit Gebru; Émile P. Torres Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 e7bea31b7b02b94fbf39fa59f8d1a7cb80c05c894f3414c4ca767a4a62d7e415). Journal HTML galley (article/download/13636/11599), volume 29, number 4, 1 April 2024. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Timnit Gebru, Émile P. Torres, “The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence”, 2024-04-01. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (48 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 79) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence ↗ First Monday 29(4) (firstmonday.org) · 2024-04-01
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Source excerpt “TESCREALists have influenced policy-makers and researchers who may not be aligned with these utopian ideals into prioritizing the AGI agenda, while creating unsafe products, evading accountability, and siphoning resources away from organizations around the world building task-specific models” Location in source Section 1, Introduction
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Source details and check notes Authors Timnit Gebru; Émile P. Torres Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 e7bea31b7b02b94fbf39fa59f8d1a7cb80c05c894f3414c4ca767a4a62d7e415). Journal HTML galley (article/download/13636/11599), volume 29, number 4, 1 April 2024. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Timnit Gebru, Émile P. Torres, “The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence”, 2024-04-01. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (38 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 79) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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