Cian O'Donnell

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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education.

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Computational neuroscientist. Senior Lecturer at Ulster University in the Great City of Derry, Northern Ireland. "not articulate enough" https://odonnellgroup.github.io

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The EuroNMC COST Action has started — a four-year European network on neuromorphic computing. I am leading WG1: Foundations & Theoretical Models. Our question: when does a biological mechanism actually buy you something computationally, and when should it be deliberately viola…

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Machine learning analysis of Autism phenotype data supports a four-dimensional continuum with three overlapping subtypes https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.27.26361561v1

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Massive congrats to my PhD student @jajmca.bsky.social, co-supervised by John Wade & @conjh.bsky.social, who handed in his PhD thesis yesterday inside 3 years, virtually unheard of in the UK! Amazing theoretical/computational work linking structure to function in recurrent neural networks.

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Surely the purpose of Trump's AI Force is to enable a surveillance state. More generally I am not so much worried about AGI or AI taking over humans, but humans using AI as a weapon for cyber attacks or a tool for mass surveillance on other humans.

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circa 2010 during my PhD in a comp neuro/machine learning institute, at a computer vision seminar I asked a naive question and speaker said, yeah there is a running joke in ML that what we really need is 'a big model that knows everything'. Cue a chuckle from the audience How blind we were

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I know people mourn the loss of the ability to use the em-dash for fear of suspicion of AI-ing their writing. But for me the big one is the rule of three - losing that has made me sad, frustrated, and even downright perturbed.

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