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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Iris van Rooij
Professor of computational cognitive science
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Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @[email protected] on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
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science.org
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good nature.com
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com
Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion) insidehighered.com
What is Agentic Engineering? | IBM ibm.com
AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection | Stanford HAI hai.stanford.edu
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute futureoflife.org
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Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data aclanthology.org
Expert Comment: Digital literacy on the curriculum is an opportunity for a more proactive response to AI in schools | Oxford University ox.ac.uk
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What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I've spent 15 years becoming a researcher & tenured professor. I will absolutely quit and do literally anything else the moment someone tells me my job is to sell the racist, environment-destroying machine to students (esp. 1st gen, low-income ones). Shame on CSU. www.nytimes.…
Conscientious objection should be absolutely normalised, independent of religion. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
"The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced in response to prompting; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readin…
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oh, vibe coding is now being called agentic engineering hahah 🤡 www.ibm.com/think/topics...
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- IBM defines agentic engineering as treating agent-based systems as production-grade software, not as fast, prompt-driven experiments.
- The framing splits three terms: vibe coding for speed and exploration, agentic coding for defined roles, agentic engineering for production discipline.
- IBM says the shift is from deterministic logic to probabilistic judgment, with governance, human oversight and CI/CD review loops.
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Is this a good time to stop calling fascist technologies "tools" and to stop calling racism "bias"? hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiri...
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- A Stanford HAI study of 4 million applications found 26% of Black applicants faced AI-screened positions that discriminated against their racial group.
- Roughly 40,000 more applications would have advanced if the AI tool had recommended candidates at equal rates across racial groups.
- Ten percent of applicants who submitted four applications screened by the same vendor were rejected from all of them, exceeding independent-probability expectations.
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These pause AI nonsense calls have been happening for a long time. It's always about power because they wanna consolidate and stop racing against each other for no gains. Here's a previous time of many they tried the same silliness: futureoflife.org/open-letter/...
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I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked …
2. Climbing towards NLU: On meaning, form, and understanding in the age of data by Bender & Koller (2020) aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai... 3/3
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> teaching students how to question and critique [AI] should not be the panacea for biased, unregulated, and problematic AI. There is a risk that a focus on digital literacies can responsibilise young people in dealing with the significant problems of generative AI. www.ox.ac.…
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In case of use for others, sharing this slide in my intro class for a Bachelor course that I teach to AI students (and other interested students). More resources in thread 🧵
Can we start adding declarations of “no AI use” to published articles. I would want to know if what I am reading is slop, in part or in whole. Just saw a new paper cite me in odd ways that make no sense, unless some LLM use. But how can I distinguish sloppiness & misunderstanding from AI slop?
On LiNkEdIn 🤪🫠 Sir, I teach AI students and what you are saying is nonsense
They: You’re a creationist flat earther! Me: Excuse me, what?! They: You claim human cognition is impossible. Me: I do not claim human cognition is impossible. They: You claim AI systems cannot be useful. Me: I do not claim AI systems cannot be useful. They: Debate me! Me: No thank you.
Some AI researchers feel threatened by AI-critique without realizing that it is the AI-industry that is threatening
Some people think the problem is not that LLMs are extractivist and polluting plagiarism machines by design. No. The problem would only be that one could be *accused* of plagiarism when using an LLM.
Seeing scary entanglement between Dutch technofascist movements and EU level research into AI. Not that I could not guess, but seeing it black on white remains disconcerting ...
Using an AI-“tool” from [insert BigTech company name] for language editing of a paper about the remarkable capabilities of AI-“tools" is a COI in my honest opinion.
I'm too old to live through more hype cycles in science. First neuro hype, then AI hype, what's next? Don't answer!
What do other researchers do when you are asked to review or write commentaries on paper that have been processed by corporate “AI”?
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