Si Wu | 吴斯

My first blog post is live!

A PhD in social science has fundamentally reshaped how I think about AI – from ethics to human behavior to the unintended consequences of large-scale systems.

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My second blog post is live! In this post, I conduct a small experiment on LLMs, overtranslation, and culturally and philosophically dense Chinese terms.

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This week, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation and became a doctor! 👩‍🎓 I'm deeply grateful to my committee — Taylor Boas, Rachel Brulé, Roselyn Hsueh, and Joseph Harris — for their unwavering support throughout this journey. @BU_PoliSci

Excited to present at #AAS2026 on our panel "From Bodies to Bureaucracies: Reproduction and Gendered State Power in Contemporary China" this Friday (11:00-12:30, VCC Room 209). A great lineup of papers, chair and discussant. Hope to see you there! cdmcd.co/3RLBxr

Fall weather at BU 🍂. @BU_Tweets @BU_PoliSci