Friends, given what is happening in the US, take a bit of time to read this wonderful article about Ariel Koren and Respond Crisis Translation where @Alex Hanna and I are on the board. Ariel was pushed out of Google for uncovering Project Nimbus, Google's collaboration with the Israeli military on cloud services and "AI." RCT is on the frontlines of protecting immigrants being hunted down around the country. Please support RCT if you have the money or tell others in your .

San Francisco Examiner

SF nonprofit translates for tasks big and small

Translation group finds interpreters for those in need.

I am currently having the displeasure of watching Peter Thiel's keynote at the 2013 "Effective Altruism (EA) Summit". Yes. I too didn't understand what Thiel and "altruism" have to do with each other, but it made sense after I knew that EAs are super effective at the opposite of "altruism".

I can't believe it is already our FOURTH Anniversary. Happy anniversary to us 🎉🎉 🎉 We have a small but mighty team. Each of these projects could be institutes of their own. I've been working at DAIR twice as long as I was as the two long years at Google, and it flew by because that's what happens when you love your work and are surrounded by great people 🥰 Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.

How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscar...

My 2 cents on so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). AGI is a fictional, undefined machine god, which is causing harm and goes against the backbone of engineering principles.

Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, 60 minutes and such, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that. By @npub1v9aa...5z6v and @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users

OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbo...

🗣️🗣️🗣️ This Thursday, I'm going to be hosting part of this in person event in San Francisco along with Alex Hanna, Ph.D. The event is organized by an organization near and dear to both of us, called Respond Crisis Translation, doing front line work which is even more important right now. ➡️ RSVP at bit.ly/rct-rsvp