Right Livelihood winners And Gebru's AI warnings

Sep 30

Goodman announces the 2026 Right Livelihood laureates in Stockholm: Pakistani human-rights lawyer Jalila Haider, Rural Women's Assembly, Georgian Young Lawyers' Association and DAIR founder Timnit Gebru. The bulletin describes the Assembly as organizing women across South Africa. It then replays Gebru's earlier interview: she warns that fluent chatbot text encourages users to imagine a superhuman mind, criticizes a single-minded pursuit of larger models that excludes other research paths, and alleges stolen creative work, exploited labor and environmental harm. She says her early belief that mathematics and physics offered refuge from war and politics proved mistaken and calls for technology that supports communities. The complete award bulletin and its archival interview excerpt remain one editorial unit.

Democracy Now announces the 2026 Right Livelihood laureates in Stockholm: Jalila Haider, Rural Women's Assembly, Georgian Young Lawyers' Association and Timnit Gebru. It describes their work on vulnerable communities, rural women's organizing, democracy and AI research. Gebru's archival interview words are a separate earlier occurrence, not remarks delivered at the award announcement.