Serife (Sherry) Wong

[email protected] has surprised many with his shift towards Xrisk speculation. Many policymakers have, perpetuating false AI narratives. These beliefs aren't organic & need to be to contextualized with how much EA lobbying has happened. From 2023: www.politico.com/news…

politico.com

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...

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

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/t…

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Re your bit on Islamic algorithms, I have this illuminated piece where I compare the algorithmic art of the empire to LLMs as political propaganda logicmag.io/supa-dupa-sk...

The Origin of Clouds logicmag.io

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...

Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police mercurynews.com

Art & critical AI discourse: I see a beam from a lighthouse bright but still, illuminating the ocean as our boat steers right into the rocks of totalitarian AI. Our discourse burns at both ends, But oh what waves! & oh snap, friends, it casts a beautiful light. www.totei.com/s…

Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing totei.com

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/sta…

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Sf standard coverage sfstandard.com/2026/08/17/a...

His AI boss fired his human coworker. He’s not worried sfstandard.com

Reading this in context of how "skeptical" of their company anthropic employees must have been finding about Claude use in Venezuela by the US military. They are screened to do so and encourage friction. www.implicator.ai/at-anthropic...

Anthropic's Culture Interview Is Its Top Hiring Gate implicator.ai

Then I get this ad asking me to support a policy coalition to protect kids that's run by OpenAI. parentsandkidssafeai.com which by the way was a surprise to some of the coalition. sfstandard.com/2026/04/01/o...

Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition sfstandard.com

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

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.

How can I share in progress work with people if it is work I would not want put in an LLM. What kinds of thinking or creativity are accelerated while what kinds are thwarted? And more interestingly, what kinds of new forms will work need to take pushing new sociotech frictions?

Two ads to consider together in the context of AI marketing and the power of belief. First is for the controversial note taking AI gizmo pocket that records your conversations, possibly illegally. Next one in thread.

Companies are like: Hey teach this AI agent how to do your job! For funsies only, we swear. Heard two stories this week from friends this actually happened to. Its a mess in many ways. AI agents really can't do these jobs, but workers are expected to make it work, so they are in trouble either way.

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?

Look to San Francisco, home of the tech booms & AI labs, to see how the febrile AI sector benefits ripple out to communities. My local CVS locks up the frequently shoplifted items: ramen noodles, baby formula, canned food. Rent for a 1bdrm apt nearby is $6500.

I've been talking with friends about the recent viral videos of students booing commencement speakers who bring up AI. So far they have all shared that their Bay Area teens and college students refuse to use AI. I think their critical lens on AI is born from their social media skepticism

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

2 signs in the Bay Area capture different kinds of anger at AI tools, consequences & forms of community education. Swanky neighborhood sign's AI is optional, harming others, call to action is read more. The other sign's AI is for jailing, control, fear. It warns for safety. AI hits different.