Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا)

Director of Research @DAIRInstitute \
🛼 @BayAreaDerby \
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Rep 📝 @ianbonaparte

[Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @alexhanna]

Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (@emilymbender)

It's out for release on May 13, 2025!

https://t.co/7ASgS6EnG5

[Salah Updates @SalahUpdates]

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING - Hossam Hassan:

"We were better, but football is unfair. Maybe they want to keep the world champion and Messi going in the World Cup for marketing purposes."

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.

https://t.co/mJqk5FxkFY

[Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @alexhanna]

Bernie has gone full existential risk.

Bernie bros, this is your guy?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The people building AI admit they may not be able to control it.

This is not science fiction—this is what experts are telling us.

That’s why I’m bringing together leading AI scientists from the U.S. and China to discuss the risks posed by AI. https://t.co/GLmCJ0cFiQ

[Fazi Editore @FaziEditore]

Le tecnologie vendute come “intelligenza artificiale” sono spesso presentate come una magia capace di risolvere ogni problema. @emilymbender e @alexhanna, due delle voci più influenti nel dibattito sull’IA, spiegano perché non è così.

Ne «L’inganno dell’intelligenza artificiale», dal 17 marzo in libreria, smontano l’esaltazione mediatica alimentata dalle Big Tech: l’IA di oggi è fatta di sistemi statistici su larga scala, che producono linguaggio e immagini senza comprenderli – non un’intelligenza pensante ma «pappagalli stocastici», secondo la definizione resa popolare da Bender per descrivere rischi e limiti dei modelli linguistici di grandi dimensioni (LLM) come ChatGPT e Gemini.

Un saggio lucido, brillante e accessibile sulle sfide poste dall’intelligenza artificiale: ecco come è stato accolto nel panorama internazionale.

#fazieditore #leterre

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜
I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is.
https://t.co/eeiYRr0vEO

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

Incredible reporting from @anissagardizy8 in @theinformation about OpenAI's struggle to get more computing power as Stargate—its $500B data center buildout—has floundered.

https://t.co/5u1swqrWTm

It includes this detail. We are in the dirt-eating phase of the AI hype cycle.

[Fazi Editore @FaziEditore]

L’IA ci renderà più competenti o più dipendenti?
Creerà una società più equa o più diseguale?
Chi ne risponde quando un algoritmo sbaglia?

@emilymbender e @alexhanna, due delle voci più influenti nel dibattito sull’IA, rispondono a queste e altre domande ne «L’inganno dell’intelligenza artificiale. Come resistere a Big Tech e costruire il futuro che vogliamo», un saggio che smaschera l’hype sulle tecnologie vendute come “intelligenza artificiale”, evidenziandone limiti e rischi occultati da Big Tech. Una guida indispensabile per riprendere il controllo sul nostro futuro.

Dal 17 marzo in libreria e online.

#fazieditore #leterre

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.

Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

[Ediciones Paidós @EdicionesPaidos]

¿La IA dominará el mundo? En LA ESTAFA DE LA IA, Emily M. Bender y Alex Hanna desmontan el hype tecnológico y sus riesgos reales. Un ensayo clave para entender y defender tu creatividad en la era digital. 📖

https://t.co/owBjcohlvo

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

[Dorothea Baur (Dr.) @DorotheaBaur]

Long read on the AGI cult, first quoting @alexhanna: "Every time we reach the summit of bullshit mountain, we discover there’s worse to come"; then citing a startup guy: “Morality is best thought of as a machine-learning problem.”
Q.e.d. 🙄🙄🙄
https://t.co/lyRD0jigF6

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

I am working to address an apparent error for a data point I cited in my book about the water footprint of a proposed data center in Chile. I’d like to explain what happened, what I’m doing to remedy it, and provide more recent data on the water footprint of data centers. 1/

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

An effective altruist (you know the ppl who sold the whole OpenAI will bring us AGI gospel) found a typo in Karen’s seminal book where she guessed the wrong units of a number that wasn’t reported with units. 🧵

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

@AndyMasley Thanks for your concerns here, Andy. Appreciate you raising these questions. I wrote you a comment on your Substack and sent you an email with the referenced document attached. Here they are both again.

[leslie @lesliezye]

need the t-shirt vendors to work faster than they’ve ever worked before, i expect this shirt to be sold on every corner by 11AM tomorrow

[Remember KitKat @rememberkitkat]

Thank you @JackieFielder_ #RememberKitKat

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

In "Driven Down," a new report from the DAIR Institute, Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna and Sandra Barcenas draw on interviews with drivers and Williams's own experience driving to document the state of the Chickenized Reverse Centaur. It's not good:

https://t.co/8T07kzI4pd

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[antifa🔻girlfriend @lllliatttt]

if you see bloody handprint decorations in late october and you think “oh my god someone is saying israel has blood on its hands” that’s your subconscious speaking and it’s correct 👍

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

Join RCT as we face the current state of emergency: ICE raids targeting neighborhoods, schools, hospitals and work sites, while the U.S. state escalates fascist practices of abducting, caging, deporting, and disappearing migrants. (1/4) @timnitGebru @alexhanna