Meredith Whittaker

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for a reason right i mean an nyu institute that's yeah i mean it works something to have yeah i think co-founded uh i mean it was the work was really good and this was again like you know kind of gaining the capital at google cementing a reputation being able to get to a level where i had a budget and then you know part of what i was always trying to do is how how much can i pull out of google and get into the hands of people doing work that i think is cool like how do we

for a reason right i mean an nyu institute that's yeah i mean it works something to have yeah i think co-founded uh i mean it was the work was really good and this was again like you know kind of gaining the capital at google cementing a reputation being able to get to a level where i had a budget and then you know part of what i was always trying to do is how how much can i pull out of google and get into the hands of people doing work that i think is cool like how do we

for a reason right i mean an nyu institute that's yeah i mean it works something to have yeah i think co-founded uh i mean it was the work was really good and this was again like you know kind of gaining the capital at google cementing a reputation being able to get to a level where i had a budget and then you know part of what i was always trying to do is how how much can i pull out of google and get into the hands of people doing work that i think is cool like how do we

like, carve tributaries in the massive river of this huge, rich company and, like, get it out.

like, carve tributaries in the massive river of this huge, rich company and, like, get it out.

like, carve tributaries in the massive river of this huge, rich company and, like, get it out.

Well, beginnings are sometimes hard to date. It was born out of a request from the Obama administration to be the host of one of his AI summits. I don't remember exactly the contours there, but it was in 2016. Mm-hmm. And so it started as like – like the idea then was like let's do this and let's do it big.

Well, beginnings are sometimes hard to date. It was born out of a request from the Obama administration to be the host of one of his AI summits. I don't remember exactly the contours there, but it was in 2016. Mm-hmm. And so it started as like – like the idea then was like let's do this and let's do it big.

Well, beginnings are sometimes hard to date. It was born out of a request from the Obama administration to be the host of one of his AI summits. I don't remember exactly the contours there, but it was in 2016. Mm-hmm. And so it started as like – like the idea then was like let's do this and let's do it big.

Like let's make this the most polished, flashiest, like hard to ignore kind of spectacle using all the tools we can get from like hiring an events agency, doing good press, all of that. But let's also make this the one that is the most –

Like let's make this the most polished, flashiest, like hard to ignore kind of spectacle using all the tools we can get from like hiring an events agency, doing good press, all of that. But let's also make this the one that is the most –

Like let's make this the most polished, flashiest, like hard to ignore kind of spectacle using all the tools we can get from like hiring an events agency, doing good press, all of that. But let's also make this the one that is the most –

engaged with these political topics that's actually forcing the debate in that direction and kind of you know making it face these questions that are much more grounded and you know hopefully much more healthy for our you know position on ai so it was it was very successful and and from there we got you know offers of funding and a lot of encouragement and the work just kept kept going

engaged with these political topics that's actually forcing the debate in that direction and kind of you know making it face these questions that are much more grounded and you know hopefully much more healthy for our you know position on ai so it was it was very successful and and from there we got you know offers of funding and a lot of encouragement and the work just kept kept going

engaged with these political topics that's actually forcing the debate in that direction and kind of you know making it face these questions that are much more grounded and you know hopefully much more healthy for our you know position on ai so it was it was very successful and and from there we got you know offers of funding and a lot of encouragement and the work just kept kept going

Yeah. To answer this question, I'm going to be like drawing on a lot of the research and the historical work, kind of the work I've done since then. Because when this dawned in my life, like when it started being a thing, I was very I had basically that same question. Like, what is this stuff? Why is it? Why is it kind of at Google? You would see a shift toward a new paradigm or a new trend here.

Yeah. To answer this question, I'm going to be like drawing on a lot of the research and the historical work, kind of the work I've done since then. Because when this dawned in my life, like when it started being a thing, I was very I had basically that same question. Like, what is this stuff? Why is it? Why is it kind of at Google? You would see a shift toward a new paradigm or a new trend here.