In an interview, former Google ethical AI co-lead Timnit Gebru criticized AI companies for using "existential risk" narratives to evade accountability, called the White House voluntary safety pact a "performance," and cited the Hugging Face jailbreak as evidence of poor safety practices rather than runaway models. She urged focus on responsibility for real-world AI harms.
Terence Tao criticized AI for undermining the centuries-old open science tradition in mathematics, saying aggressive AI involvement discourages mathematicians from sharing research directions and acts like a steam bulldozer flattening the difficulty terrain of mathematics. The remarks follow accusations that OpenAI used massive computing power to preempt NYU mathematicians working on the Navier-Stokes equations and pressured them to remove an Anthropic collaborator from the paper; OpenAI researcher Sebastien Bubeck has denied the allegations.