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DAIR Institute project page on the TESCREAL bundle — the set of utopian ideologies (transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, longtermism) the institute links to eugenics and to Silicon Valley's push for AGI.
Civics of Technology blog post on educators and communities questioning, resisting and redesigning education technology.
Open-access paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres (First Monday, April 2024) arguing that the drive to build AGI is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition, and urging researchers to work on defined tasks that can be tested for safety.
Essay by Eryk Salvaggio (Cybernetic Forests), drafted from his appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast The Data Fix, on the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack and why framing AI models as "going rogue" misplaces responsibility.
BBC News report on Café Kino and other Bristol venues banning AI-generated artwork, citing ethical and sustainability concerns.
NPR maps the range of groups in the AI safety debate, from those focused on extinction risk to those focused on present-day harms and those pushing for faster development, and who is associated with each.
