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A lot of the people who are making money are not the people actually in the midst of it.

— Timnit Gebru

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Impacts people all over the world and they don’t get to have a say on how they should shape it.

My hope is that our work counteracts the drive to centralize power and disenfranchise human beings.

We have many people who are each working to support their communities in some way and sharing profits back.

I want to live in a world where instead of there being one company in one place in the world with one dominant model.

I’ve met so many people like you who think that they can just come here from other countries and take the hardest classes.

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