Serife (Sherry) Wong

Poll: Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits In new NBC News polling, the only topics that were less popular than AI were the Democratic Party and Iran.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Poll green is negative yellow positive feelings. AI is the Gavin Newsom of tech I guess.

Come to @grayarea.org for an event 👾

NYU cancels live school graduation speakers - Washington Square News Graduation speakers will no longer give live remarks at school-based ceremonies and must instead record their statements for a video, in compliance with a policy NYU is rolling out this year. The tran...

"Graduation speakers will no longer give live remarks at school-based ceremonies + must instead record their statements for a video... The transition... comes after NYU faced nationwide backlash for its response to a grad condemning the “genocide currently occurring in Gaza” in his speech last May"

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

My art world mentor was an old wasp social register type and I asked him all sorts of questions on what was up with this situation or that person and he would often shrug and quote fitzgerald "the rich are different than you or me." RIP Charlie

What's new here is that this would not have been the public reaction a few months ago. I was frustrated because we need more education or criticality etc but now it's very public news how LLMs and other AI tools are integrated into violence and oppression. But minds w certainty are unable to shift

An artist was praising a famous gallery for getting how special AI is with its emergent qualities etc and the comment section was not having it. This elitist upholding of big tech mythos shows how the art world lags. 1. "AI"is not hard to get. 2. It marks a lack of criticality good artists have

Full Film & More: Take This Hammer (1964) | Exploring Hate | PBS This content contains scenes that may be too sensitive for some viewers. About the film: Author and activist James Baldwin meets with members of San

Baldwin talking with SF locals is very clear eyed about the image of SF projected by the bureaucratic wealthy & powerful and the extractive, racist reality on the ground. There is no moral distance between life under AI, masked men at the door, violence abroad. www.pbs.org/wnet/explori...

Over and over it's death. Death in the poetics, death as a service, death IRL.

A panel of approximately ten people — predominantly men in dark business casual attire — seated in a row of chairs on a stage, appearing to be participating in a panel discussion or Q&A. Several wear lanyards with name badges. The image is mirrored vertically, creating a reflection effect where the group appears both right-side-up in the lower half and upside-down in the upper half.

I think the visual of the youtube talk is like a Holbein painting and tells it like it is about narrative and sector capture: the mic passing aimlessly, credentials hanging on necks, the shoulder to shoulder barricade of it, heads gleaming like the teeth of a skull, chewing nothing.

The age of anxiety is giving way to the age of "this is what you had anxiety about."

AI in Philanthropy (with Serife Wong and Katy Knight) YouTube video by OCEAN Network

AI skeptics podcast. Cathy O'Neil and I chat with Katy Knight, president of Siegel Endowment on AI, covering myths in how we perceive benefits, lessons learned in philanthropy on what actually is effective and the importance of alternative imaginaries youtu.be/12sNT8JsF2w?...

I love this so much 👸

All-Source Intelligence | Jack Poulson | Substack A newsletter on technology and national security. Click to read All-Source Intelligence, by Jack Poulson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Interested in how AI is being used by the military? Want the receipts? Subscribe to Jack Poulson's newsletter. It follows the money. jackpoulson.substack.com

Palantir was the top performer today in the S&P 500, climbing 6.5%

Let's check polymarket and find out.

Well maybe they should have been more thoughtful before signing contracts with Palantir (checks watch)... in 2024.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

Iowa city removes Flock license plate readers, terminates contract with surveillance company The council originally approved the Flock cameras in September with a stipulation that they would not be used to help find undocumented immigrants.

I love this song.

I don't know how markets/future will play out when agendas are so messy, but this Anthropic drama benefits their marketing strategy + they have 6 months for it to kinda fizzle out. Much of the narrative is hype. I give it a month or 2 to play out, not my trust. Things aren't b&w, hero vs heel IRL

In Anthropic commentary, I see EA tech influence being framed as helpful right now. I'm no Palantir network mapping machine but EA is not moral philosophy, its people. EAs in Bay Area contain & hang w white supremacist, eugenicists etc, easier to see from outside than have self awareness inside

You would not believe the newsletters I am getting these days.Mea culpa I guess for having an interest in AI, philosophy & the arts. Amazing. Of course they are using LLMs to write longer diatribes, but are they reading their own missives before sending it to me? Sus. I'm not unsubscribing though!

I can't speak for everyone but this is being shared in my channels as an example because people are upset at how fake news is manufactured to create greater anger between the left and right in the US. No one I follow posts on sports they are researchers who study politics and current crisis

So it's not as much about hockey as a topic but that it's stuff like this fake video that ends up gradually pushing people into more and more fake videos on social media. It's about political propaganda and the manipulation of social media for nefarious reasons. Sports are just popular right now

It's a complicated situation. Not trusting what we see benefits people and governments who profit off of distrust such as the left right division. The US benefits those who take advantage of anger politically. So we have to maintain trust while being critical smart audiences which is very hard to do

Fake Euronews videos used in Milan Olympics disinformation campaign Across social media, a series of doctored Euronews videos spread false claims about Ukrainian athletes and refugees over the course of the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. #TheCube

Here's an example of how sports videos are used for political propaganda. AI can now be used to fake realistic voices and video. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

For example, many countries ,Russia in particular, spread fake videos of sports. They start pretty boring but gradually get more extreme. People aren't going to believe extreme ones right away they need to get warmed up. This hockey video functions as that warm up.

It's very hard to tell these days. We have to double check find the original video and pause before sharing anything to investigate. It's fake but not offensive or close enough is a slippery slope. It makes it easy for others to then dismiss real problematic important news as fake too