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Iris van Rooij

Professor of computational cognitive science

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Professor of computational cognitive science with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education.

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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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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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oh, vibe coding is now being called agentic engineering hahah 🤡 www.ibm.com/think/topics...

What is Agentic Engineering? | IBM ibm.com
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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...

AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection | Stanford HAI hai.stanford.edu
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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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> 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.…

Expert Comment: Digital literacy on the curriculum is an opportunity for a more proactive response to AI in schools | Oxford University ox.ac.uk View on Bluesky →
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nice piece! everything "AI" and related nonsense touches becomes confused: even "automation" is problematic since it often implies in the public imaginary & beyond no human input, no human-in-the-loop when it's the opposite! thus underlining the urgency & damage www.sciencedir…

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What a breath of fresh air. Good to see at least one university being clear and granting students exactly the space they need to hone their skills. "The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitte…

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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?

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Some AI researchers feel threatened by AI-critique without realizing that it is the AI-industry that is threatening

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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 ...

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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.

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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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if one thinks *displacement AI* is just a tool, maybe one is a tool (*term by @olivia.science)

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