Lisa Messeri

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Researcher with public evidence across AI research.

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anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.

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This excellent and an excellent model for other fields to follow. leidendeclaration.ai

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai
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  • The Leiden Declaration, released June 2, 2026, warns AI threatens proof integrity, attribution, and peer review in mathematics.
  • Over 2,654 signatories including Fields Medal winner Terence Tao have endorsed the community-initiated declaration.
  • The International Mathematical Union backs the declaration, which makes separate recommendations to researchers, publishers, policymakers, and AI developers.
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social

I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • A Data & Society report finds over 60% of Americans favor limiting new data center construction, with $68 billion in projects disrupted by local opposition in Q2 2026.
  • The finding rests on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 44 interviews in Pennsylvania, where Governor Josh Shapiro touted $90 billion in AI infrastructure investment in July 2025.
  • Shapiro has since signed an order adding new requirements and pulling data center projects off regulatory fast-track initiatives.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the hugging face ‘hack.’ I’ve been checking my own bias (and desire to just say it’s distracting from the actual problems of genAI). I finally can articulate what has for me been a helpful framing. This was an oil spill.

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since we are all talking about AI sex cults, here are some snippets from an article stuck in peer review purgatory that weaves together the rationalists (ground 0 for AI sex cults), mid century science fiction, sex magick, and scientology.

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I have an article under review where I draw a line connecting Scientology and AI rationalists and, well, this picture in the times article about the AGI house and those dissenting from the pope makes me feel like I’m not out on as far as a limb as I thought…

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