Right Livelihood winners And Gebru's AI warnings

Aug 13

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.

In the earlier interview replayed by Democracy Now, Timnit Gebru warns that fluent chatbot text encourages users to imagine a mind or superhuman intelligence behind it. She criticizes concentrating resources on ever larger models while excluding alternatives and alleges exploited labor, stolen work and environmental harm. She calls for technology serving communities and rejects separating technical research from war and politics.