The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
A journal article by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres, First Monday 29, dated 1 April 2024. Issue date "Volume 29, Number 4 - 1 April 2024" on the article page.
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- Present harms deserve priorityThe 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.2024-04-01 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Present harms deserve priority: propositions page →
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