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Multiple readings Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 17d ago
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AI skill degradation early results study

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Djamé 🟥 Scott McGrath Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +5
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“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...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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Established AI research Analysis 9d ago
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Leiden Declaration AI and mathematics

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

16 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Clément Canonne Olivia Guest suhr Pierre Alquier Lisa Messeri +8
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Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“A list of principles put forth by mathematicians, for mathematicians and other researchers, regarding the use of AI in research. "Number #9 will surprise you!" leidendeclaration.ai”

Context & explanation

1 expert

Background, chronology and why it matters.

“Andrew, here is a place to start for some background reading: leidendeclaration.ai >>”

4 experts discussed this · 22 posts
Emily M. Bender: Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjec…
Emily M. Bender: And people have the gall to refer to all of this as "new empiral evidence" (of "AI" or "AGI" or something) and demand that we respond to it. >>
Emily M. Bender: But it doesn't matter how verifiable the math results are, nor how diligently the media repeats the anthropomorphized descriptions of the cybercrimes and breathless repetitions of existential risk …
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14 experts · 130 posts · 13d ago
Marc Lanctot Olivia Guest Sarah T Roberts, PhD Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield Colin Adam Wiemerslage rev. howard arson
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 4 Opportunity & adoption · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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2 experts · 22 posts · 20d ago
Iris van Rooij Andrew D Wilson
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Iris van Rooij: It is so interesting that people worry about enforcement. Honesty is one of the principles of scientifuc integrity. We ask applicants also to declare that everything in the grant is filled in truth…
Andrew D Wilson: Enforcement is a real issue with AI though. If you intend to have consequences for AI use, you need to be able to have a criterion for identifying it, and AI detection is not trivial.
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2 experts · 17 posts · 20d ago
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈 Andrew D Wilson
Andrew D Wilson: I take it as a basic fact that there’s no policy I can write that will stop my students using AI, and the fact it’s impossible to definitely catch AI use means it will always be an option they cons…
Andrew D Wilson: Things in a class policy might help - point out how it removes them from the process and how that’s the educationally important bit, all that sort of good stuff. But that won’t solve the issue, the…
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