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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tiare Roxanne new paper dropped today. On extension of colonialism via digital border surveillance disruption.institute/fellows/tiar...

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Automated Extraction: Tactics of Surveillance... · Tiara Roxanne — Disruption Network Institute

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rape culture in the effective altruism community is dismissed as consensual kink. Can a person give meaningful consent when there is a lot of money signaling, cultural pressure, charismatic famous figures, and power imbalance involved?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is so… something. AI generated videos of a human painting those kitsch oceans you only find in malls. Image theory flip flopping in the wind.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds [i.e., Psychology and Artificial Intelligence]. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot.” 📝 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... cc @olivia.science

Combining Psychology With Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Abstract
The current AI hype cycle combined with psychology’s various crises make for a perfect storm. Psychology, on the one hand, has a history of weak theoretical foundations, a neglect for computational and formal skills, and a hyperempiricist privileging of experimental tasks and testing for effects. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, has a history of conflating artifacts for theories of cognition, or even minds themselves, and its engineering offspring likes to move fast and break things. Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot. Does this mean that psychology and artificial intelligence can best part ways? Not at all. There are very fruitful ways in which the two disciplines can interact and theoretically contribute to cognitive science, for instance, by studying the scope and limits of computational models of human cognition. But to reap the fruits, one needs to understand how to steer clear of potential traps.

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theoretical psychology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computationalism, epistemology

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Scenes of flotsam and jetsam in the Bay Area. Some of the dog and pony show happening, safety theater, is in response to the public refusal & tech company backlash. It wasn’t expected I think. Watch as responsibility trends again and AI ethicists get hired back at companies that fired whole teams.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Video can capture what is between the lines in a way no article could. I see no difference between any of the major AI companies. We can not trust these systems because we can not trust these institutions or their mechanisms for accountability. www.youtube.com/live/hetzIrL...

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Trump speaks after meeting with AI tech titans

YouTube video by The Hill

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stop AI was a flop. Pause AI was a bust. But oh now “Pace AI” that’s what they are going with? What next? Tickle AI? Don’t text back right away wait five minutes so you don’t seem so eager AI? Why not support existing lawsuits? Why not join existing movements already fighting the good fight?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you. I had not seen this. This is a great point re trusting in AI and part of the reason why I find discourse on AI alignment chasing after trust in AI systems to be unhelpful.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Many trust Anthropic leaders' good intentions and it's being confused with trustworthiness of mechanisms & institutions. These aren't the same thing as I learned from the inimitable bad ass political scientist Margaret Levi when we wrote this brief: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef0b...

screenshot of text: In discussing whether we should “trust” AI, the same terms often carry distinctive meanings
in different academic disciplines and for different industries. Although we are unlikely to
achieve a common language, we can at least attempt to focus attention on the critical
variables. Here our concern is not trust, that is when an individual perceives or judges
another person or institution worthy of the risks involved with relying on them for a good or
service.
What we really care about is trustworthiness, those qualities of organizations (e.g.,
governments, firms) meant to promote the public’s confidence in the intentions,
competence, and accountability of the organization, the staff, their platforms, algorithms,
and systems within specific domains. In other words, we are concerned less with trust as a
subjective feeling that an individual might have about another person or institution; and
more with trustworthiness as an objective property of the person or institution that might be
the object of trust. Intentions refer to the extent that the relevant entity reveals an obligation
to act with proper concern for those its actions and products will affect, be they investors,
shareholders, consumers, or citizens. Competence refers to the capacities and ability of the
entity to accomplish what it claims it can do. Accountability refers to the ways it takes
responsibility for mistakes and unintended consequences of its actions and products.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@ali-alkhatib.com coined this phrase and has stickers :) Pop it on your signboards and march with it. Says it all really. It is a solid framing and a message to rally behind that can travel quickly as a narrative and makes sense to the public. It is the political economy of AI in 4 words

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I remember reading about the high suicide rate at the high school in Palo Alto which is just so awful and thinking about so many people who are high achieving in their tech jobs but don’t have time to be with their kids. It was this one. Been a minute. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The Silicon Valley Suicides

Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty AGI optimist: We have to pour a gajillion gallons of water a minute into this cup or else it’ll never be sentient!

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank you. What a disgusting display of racism by the moderators this is clearly not a threat.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is not a real store btw it’s more like AI vaporware which is very much business as usual here. New companies talk a big talk for attracting investors but the market or customers , concept, tech , deliverables are not ironed out and they drive investors with shock marketing

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Somedays the headlines are like 1984, some days like the parable of the sower.

A San Francisco Chronicle newspaper dated Friday, August 21, 2026, held up in a store entrance display among groceries. Visible headlines include “Crackdown sought on firings by AI” and “Homes in fire zones face limits on plants.”

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Meanwhile in San Francisco: What do we want? AI Safety! When do we want it? Whenever you get around to it after we cash out our stock options!

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's really disturbing how the white supremacist are emboldened over on xwitter over Arday's suicide. It's scary.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026

Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Congrats! I hope there’s some rest before a book tour❤️

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Effective Altruists scaled the ideology among AI researchers using crypto $. At one point, EA civil society was worth $40b. Rest of civil society is hopeful for IPO donations. Together these normalize a lot of sci fi ideas via cog biases capturing resources + attention from reality-based governance.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of the biggest surprises when I started to work more closely with academia was how much nonsense there is at the top by experts. So much faffing about and then you turn around and talk to people who take fancy names seriously and all you can do is witness how belief overrides sense.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

make some research norms more difficult as an inherent affordance of the technology and as a a corporate strategy. (I am fleshing this out in a paper on "algorithmic agnotology" that I am finishing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...

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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26

YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Lots of PR from tech companies promoting AI lately. How they view public opinion is out of touch &condescending. "Oh these users think AI is bad, they don't know it's good actually. I'll tell them." Don't empires often start their collapse when their power isolates them from learning/strategizing?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Super Cool. Dine artist and mathematician weaves computer chip designs and shines a light on indigenous labor in the computing industry which is unrecognized and extractive. forgeproject.com/collection/e...

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In any sector, in any work you do, with any concern for any tool, company or state you can’t believe you are powerless. It isn’t humility to think the problem is bigger than your power to solve it but rather ego. Humility is in seeing collective power, in joining the work others are already doing.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Researchers w different AGI beliefs agree on pacing agreements, a more palatable pause/stop AI. But the narrative is captured away from power they already have to organize, quit, unionize, whistleblow. Could we coordinate in the pandemic? climate? Depoliticization builds a big tent without stakes

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The visual metaphor of this article's book chop video captures the current epistemic trashing by LLMs. I have seen so many book scanners before that are gentle and preserve books. I can't tell if it's real, it ought to be I guess? But unbelievably on the nose www.news.com.au/technology/o...

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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We can disagree about AI policy, but when we are fundamentally talking about a technology that is a tool with limits & another group is talking about this same technology as a new God we are not having a conversation. There's no progress. Also they have more money than all other nonprofits combined

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That crypto bump a few years ago that poured money into the coffers of a lot of the tech mesmerized & hopeful for AGI folks is really significant in what narratives are dominant within these companies now. Growing this fantasy ideology via social media is a major pursuit.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The more you use a tool meant to sound human, the more confounded u may get in considering it intelligent/conscious. Is this why so many research papers overflow with anthropomorphic framing? Seeing respected researchers in the sector support sci-fi AI confirms their desires as fact.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You can not have governance of a technology when the resources and funding for protecting and advocating for the public interest and basic human rights is diverted to fantasy sci fi whimsy. This is very confusing for decision making in the sector as many respected leaders are caught up in nonsense

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Effective Altruism is ramping up social media influencing for their ideology as... effective use of $ to fear monger for future lives saved in speculative fictitious futures but there is an EA event in SF every 3 days or so: picnics, walks, parties. Imagine the $ once Anthropic stocks are cashed out

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A lot of AI enabled violence and harm has come to pass but I have to say I did not expect the public to reject AI at this level nor did I see how fast the momentum against data centers would build. Neither did the companies. Scrambling

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

open-source project mapping surveillance and you can find routes around cameras. deflock.org

deflock.org

DeFlock

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our model escaped and hacked! Unprecedented! Could there be anything incentivizing a nervous company as they lose their lead to a rival to make their tool sound so so naughty that it must be very smart. We can hardly control this monster AI! IPO coming soon! Sci Fi geeks doing PR again.

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Twilight Zone Nightmare

ALT: Twilight Zone Nightmare

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’m leaning to narrative power of hating on AI by framing it as all destructive power as a way to draw in more interest and maintain an air of AI dominance when you aren’t really that great AI actually.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Do you think this was internal sabotage/joke or viral marketing. Cause no way an entire department of marketing chain of command just didn’t pay attention and zero people pointed out the issue. techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Companies are hiring AI governance people again after having pivoted away from accountability in the wake of LLMs. Why this sudden bloom after the first harvest withered on the vine? Because the public does not trust these companies and their tools and does not want their data centers.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

There are many new disparate art projects in the Bay Area that collectively dismantle art power. The arts are struggling and artists are particularly vulnerable to weaving the fabric that binds our mouths shut and our bodies down if it pays our rent.

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Charlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe Silvia

ALT: Charlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe Silvia

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The arts & what culture is and serves is fundamentally being reshaped towards a politically economy that in reality serves the interests of the powerful and decimates the arts. The loss of CCA, this $ direction does not serve artists but is a co-option of our ecosystem www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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Nvidia CEO Gives Vanderbilt University $75 Million For San Francisco Campus

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/10/2025

"While corporations urge us to embrace their supposedly inevitable tech-driven future, academics must take a principled stand and defend universities by barring toxic, addictive techn from classrooms." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... Tide is def shifting: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 9/n

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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Teens annoy a lot of people sure, but what next? Waymo facial recognition identifies immigrants, Waymo calls ICE, Waymo follows activist home, Waymo blocks traffic to aid in mass arrests at pro democracy protest www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/07/w...

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Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police

The 15-year-olds allegedly were drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun as they rode in the driverless car.

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