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Birhane and Prabhu note, echoing Ruha Benjamin [15], “Feeding AI systems on the world’s beauty, ugliness, and cruelty, but expecting it to reflect only the beauty is a fantasy.” [p.1541]

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? "1F99C

Emily M. Bender; Timnit Gebru; Angelina McMillan-Major; Shmargaret Shmitchell

Ellacuría's philosophy necessitates ideology critique, it follows that such critique is done best from that location where the fullness of reality makes itself present. For Ellacuría, this is the world of the poor.

Ignacio Ellacuria: Essays on History, Liberation, and Salvation

Michael E. Lee

Plante sees this clericalism as in evidence in other religious contexts as well as secular: “Clericalism may be found in many organizations beyond religious or spiritual ones and is the tendency to allow a small group of highly regarded and special leaders to have the power and privilege to make all or most of the important and critical decisions for the organization and those within it.”

Hierarchicalism

James F. Keenan

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