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Nitasha Tiku
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Nitasha Tiku
@nitashatiku
Tech culture reporter @washingtonpost in SF
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No flex zone, Oakland
Joined March 2009
- Google removed the pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its AI principles
- !!! “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”
- over 5 months I talked to 47 current/ex Google employees 2 make sense of the past 3 yrs inside Google: fear of the far right, activist awakening, compromises in search of revenue, weaponized leaks it's the WIRED cover story‼️ read the heck out of it (pls)
- Replying to @nitashatikuGoogle employees first used the tactic of leaking their coworkers' personal information to far-right accounts/blogs in order to shut down advocacy work on diversity after the James Damore memo My story on that from 2018
- did you know that SF has the highest per capita rate of men who raise their hands during Q&A but have no actual question
- Great buzzfeed post similar to mine from this morning where I argued that tech platforms’ failure to police terrorist content from white supremacists is a business decision not a legal or proven technical constraint buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanha… wired.com/story/why-tech…
- tech spent a decade telling us gig workers were: 1. replaceable, didn’t have skills to warrant benefits 2. wanted flexibility 3. outside the core biz of building ,,platforms the same workers are now: 1. our saving grace 2. have no choice but to work 3. keeping delivery alive
- A group of 30 women Indian engineers who are Dalits-or members of the lowest rank caste-and work for Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco & other tech cos say they have faced caste bias inside the U.S. tech sector
- New: more than 140 scientists funded by @ChanZuckerberg sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg today calling Facebook's policies on misinformation and incitements to violence "antithetical" to CZI's mission to build a better future and urging him to do better
- we need to invest in neural network literacy or people are going to freak outthis conversation about consciousness and emotions and death with an AI named LaMBDA at Google is absolutely chilling this is without-a-doubt one of the craziest things I've ever seen technology do, I almost can't believe it's real wow @nitashatiku washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
- india walked so gwyneth could runOur cover subject this month is a living legend wsj.com/articles/gwyne…
- My story on Google cancelling a talk on caste bias by leading advocate @dalitdiva includes a couple letters. Both mention that a Google employee was doxed for working on the talk. The employee's email was posted on Twitter
