Olivia Guest

Cognitive scientist working on AI critique

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Cognitive scientist working on AI critique with public evidence across AI research.

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👁️ https://olivia.science 🍃 https://metatheory.space associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει

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Iris van Rooij @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

This editor/author does the same “trick” as he writes: "Recently, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields. New AI agents can now carry out many aspects of research…

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Tech Transparency Project linked 210 Facebook pages to Beijing-based GatherOne, running about 30,800 ads for AI image-generation and face-swap tools.
  • One promoted Android app, BAfter, had a 'ShareZone' with pornographic face-swaps; reviewers flagged what they called illegal child porn and AI videos of minors.
  • Meta says it banned BAfter and had ads removed on roughly 85 percent of the identified pages after being shown the findings.
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Can your calculator communicate when you turn it upside down? Experts believe it's at least possible. We urgently need to understand the ethical implications of numbers like 5318008. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Could AI be conscious? theguardian.com View on Bluesky →
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social

Worth reading this whole piece, which ends with something that I've been leaning on lately too: the answer isn't to give up. Writing/thinking/learning, all part of making meaning in your life, which kids need and deserve. And good teachers matter! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-…

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom theguardian.com
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Recent commentary

If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:

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Sometimes seeing people I liked, studied with, became friends with at conferences over the past 15 years become AI boosters actually hurts my feelings. Other times it was fully predictable because they only did degrees to work for Google or IBM back in the day or to start a weird little start-up.

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Saying AI is bad, but it's ok for coding is the kind of logic that got us into this mess. Nobody takes this seriously anymore. And relatedly, ditto for when they keep insisting that usefulness is the hinge on which to evaluate the tech, as if we claimed the problem with AI is it's not useful. 1/n

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If you all have an ounce of self control left, please stop polluting by posting the output of nonsense chatbots on here as if it's funny or charming. It's 2026... we're tired of seeing it.

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we have to take a step back and ask: who prefers to talk round & round in circles instead of positive change in the world? to go to battle over words instead of deeper ideas & even more importantly actually fighting AI? the answers are who are the (accidental maybe) sell outs and the crypto fash

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Has anybody else noticed that with the yankification of UK politics for example we also have yankification of the mainstream internet and of academia? Everything through AI has been streamlined into nonsense of the average USA chud, lowest bar — not typical stiff upper lip or whatever else. 1/

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