They really are not going to give the Gebru story a rest.
I wonder why Bezos doesn't stop them, after all Amazon is also a big player in AI. Maybe it is just the usual: pushing for government regulation to keep the weaker competition out?
Yes.
Since they used this author I would have assumed he was not worth the time but this article is solid - "How to help someone use a computer" https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html
Perhaps this is why he disappeared, the people he railed against were using his work against his principals?
Phil Agre's Wired articles - https://www.wired.com/author/phil-agre/
The 1995 "While the Left Sleeps" about the Left underestimating the Republicans is interesting.
Good grief. Thanks for pointing that out - it gave me goosebumps. I can't get my head around how clearly he could see what was happening, and why/how it was happening, and what the end game would be. Brilliant, if chilling.
Prescient if not somewhat ironic. We can’t even find someone who wants to be the FDA commissioner now. It’s become an organ of our government-media industrial complex.