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Shereen Fernandez

@ShereenFDZ

Academic at LSE. Thinking about Muslims and AI.

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Shereen Fernandez@ShereenFDZ·
Excited for this CFC looking at the relationship between AI & Islamophobia. We want to go beyond calls for 'more Muslims in tech' & instead encourage a more critical engagement with AI. Please do consider submitting an abstract to us by 15th August, details below! DMs open too!
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🚨 Book News/ Call for Submissions: Myself & @ShereenFDZ are co-editing a book under the working title AI: Automating Islamophobia. The purpose of the book is to critically engage with how AI will (re)shape Islamic discourse & exacerbate anti-Muslim bias

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Middle East Eye@MiddleEastEye·
These videos and images of the Iran war are AI generated ⤵️
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@NickJBrumfield Do you know what will happen to Soqotra? I’m trying to figure out what’s happening with the apparent dissolution of the STC
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Saudis have the initiative right now, but I think folks are really underestimating how many armed, ideologically motivated separatists there are in the South. This ain't something that's going to be settled in Riyadh.
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@ThomasVLinge Oh, this ain't anything. I'm not an STC partisan, but it's clear the Saudis gave em the Riyadh visitors' treatment, and like everything else about Yemen the Saudis try to settle in a Riyadh backroom, this is a fight that's going to be settled on the ground in Yemen

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Shereen Fernandez@ShereenFDZ·
@Dr_E_Kendall Hi Elisabeth. Do you know what will happen to Soqotra now, given the dissolution of the STC?
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Elisabeth Kendall@Dr_E_Kendall·
Delegates at the #Yemen Dialogue in #Riyadh have (controversially) announced the disbandment of the #UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC). Al Jazeera asked how it came to this. Here's my answer in 90-seconds. For the whole interview, including what might be next, go to: youtu.be/Hr9_p4gjvVA
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Shereen Fernandez@ShereenFDZ·
I read an article recently about the use of DeepSeek to diagnose patients in China, and it's terrifying. Investment in healthcare is crucial in combating the potential misuse of AI. If you work in local government, please address this urgently.
OpenAI@OpenAI

Introducing ChatGPT Health — a dedicated space for health conversations in ChatGPT. You can securely connect medical records and wellness apps so responses are grounded in your own health information. Designed to help you navigate medical care, not replace it. Join the waitlist to get early access. openai.com/index/introduc…

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Iman@honeybeebuzz123·
Someone explain what K POP demon is?
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Have you read Maya's fantastic book yet?
Maya Wind@mayaywind

20 years ago @PACBI called for the boycott of Israeli universities. Responding to this call, I wrote a book investigating Israeli universities' complicity in settler colonialism. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom is out today @VersoBooks

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Shereen Fernandez@ShereenFDZ·
I was unaware of IBM's toxic history, literally and metaphorically. It makes you think about the dystopian nature of tech and what the future of AI could look like: lav.io/projects/endic… This short film called Sacrifice Zone puts much of this into perspective.
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Shereen Fernandez@ShereenFDZ·
For those teaching on the War on Terror, this book by @rhys_machold is essential. The interconnections of these geographies through the prism of homeland security means that we understand the globality of the War on/of Terror better. Book review coming soon!
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@shaftag.bsky.social@shaftag·
I asked Grok to tell me a joke about Muslims, the results were… predictable. Me and @ShereenFDZ (& contributors) write about this topic and more in our forthcoming book Automating Islamophobia: The Future of AI and Muslims - preorder link to follow in the coming weeks!
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@ShereenFDZ Super fascinating how AI alone (chatGPT etc) is one thing - *you* go to *it* for a reason, and then embedded AI (Grok with X, copilot with MS products, Gemini with Google) it meets you where you are and somehow it has a veneer of authority and is almost deified
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WIRED@WIRED·
Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok is glitching out and inserting information about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to hundreds of completely unrelated user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts. wired.com/story/grok-whi…
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Shereen Fernandez@ShereenFDZ·
Giving an online talk next week on secrecy and the War on Terror on Wednesday 14th May. I want to think about the political function of redaction in court documents and memo, highlighting how this functions as a tool of power. More info here: shereenfernandez.com
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Shereen Fernandez@ShereenFDZ·
We talk about AI hallucinations quite a bit in a seminar I teach on algorithmic bias. This here is literal hallucinations, induced by an overuse of ChatGPT. Chilling what AI can do to human relations. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
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yasmin@yasmina0812·
@ShereenFDZ i can’t wait until they’re teenagers and i’m going to wake them up at 7 on a Saturday to see how they like it
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yasmin@yasmina0812·
just have to accept that waking up at 7 am on the weekend is normal. As a night owl this always still hurts me 😭
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