
Wilka Carvalho
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Wilka Carvalho
@cogscikid
@KempnerInst research fellow @Harvard interested in building human-empowering AI that benefits the marginalized and disenfranchised. on the job market!




Ever wonder why we drop $1,000s on a Chanel bag or queue for ages for a Labubu doll? Status signaling drives a lot of human behavior, but how certain things become potent status symbols has a remained a big puzzle in social science In our new paper we: 1. Synthesize the literature on this topic and propose a generative model of status signaling through the theory of appropriateness: people imitate what "someone like us" is supposed to want, display, and value 2. Show that we can simulate the theory to demonstrate how status symbols emerge with LLM-agent societies in Concordia @jordigraumo @WilCunningham Sasha Vezhnevets and @jzl86

we always think of and try to support the social, technological and entrepreneurial ecosystem in NYC, at NYU Global AI Frontier Lab. in order to support the recent initiative by @NYCEDC, called NYC AI Nexus, we are hosting a happy hour together with the NYC AI Nexus partner @c10labs on April 2! please join us, hear about the NYC AI Nexus program and network with your fellow entrepreneurs, professionals and students in NYC. see the reply for the registration link!











Exclusive: Callosum, a startup founded by two Cambridge-trained neuroscientists who are looking to break Nvidia's stranglehold on AI workloads, has raised $10.25 million in VC funding. Its system optimizes AI tasks across different types of chips. fortune.com/2026/02/26/sta…

Only ~7 days to go until the full paper deadline (Mar 5, AOE)! Wishing everyone a strong close to the submission cycle.






