Hanna is an old Google AI Ethicist who worked alongside Timnit Gebruwho was fired from the tech giant after expressing concerns about its natural language processing tools. Hanna now supervises research at the Distributed AI Research Institute in Gebru. Her work focuses on communities most impacted by AI. “A near-term AI dystopia is one in which there is no masterful AI taking over the world – that’s bullshit – it’s a world in which there are tools for AI that are promised to do XYZ and that many employers have actually bought into just to fire full-time workers and rehire them at a reduced rate,” Hanna told Business Insider. “This therefore increases the gigification and precariousness of work.” She is writing a book, “The AI Con,” with Emily M. Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington, that examines what she sees as the damage caused by AI and the myths around it. what she can and cannot do.
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