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Established AI field signal Resource 7d ago
⚡ 236 h early
OSF open science framework platform

OSF

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“We also make the case that the Turing test, the imitation game (see "Interlude: Can women think?" in doi.org/10.31235/osf...) rhetorically helps to form the founding historical example of Pygmalion displacement: when women computers were replaced by digital…” evidence ↗
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Abeba Birhane Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Jed Brown Andrew Hundt

“We also make the case that the Turing test, the imitation game (see "Interlude: Can women think?" in doi.org/10.31235/osf...) rhetorically helps to form the founding historical example of Pygmalion displacement: when women computers were replaced by digital…”

“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”

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Olivia Guest: Ignoring this crucial distinction is BTW at the root of many instances of xenophobia/racism. People often assume that "defective" output (i. e. non-native register) equals a lack of cognitive capac…
Olivia Guest: I have lots on this angle of you're interested 🫶🏼 Sexism: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Racism: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Also... bsky.app/profile/oliv... and more but I'll not overwhelm you needlessly!
Iris van Rooij: Also here bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Established AI field signal Resource 10d ago
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AI models Zenodo research deposit

Models

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dwayne Monroe

“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

“It this piques your interest, you also absolutely need to check out @olivia.science's piece on 'Models'. 📝 Guest, O. (2026). Models. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Trust me! You will not regret it 😎”

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Olivia Guest: I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society…
Olivia Guest: > [We need] to push back against correlationism[:] the idea that because things can appear similar that therefore their [other properties match. A] video of me may directly coincide with many of my…
Olivia Guest: > This becomes utterly damaging pedagogically when we assume the ‘output’ of an assignment, the essay or horrifically the grade, is the essence. The point is for students to engage with the subject…
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data centers taken to court podcast

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈
“For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“☀️ 📚 Day 1 of the Summer School, we had the inspiring and thought-provoking keynote by @olivia.science, titled: “What is AI, and why is it harmful?” You can watch it here 🎬 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85... 2/🧵”

Opportunity & adoption

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”

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“For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: Excited to hear @olivia.science’s research on what #AI is and why it is harmful at today’s @adaptcentre.bsky.social webinar. (Happening now!) #PhilAI #CogSci
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
Olivia Guest: oh you already found it! thank youu 🩵
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New Culture, work & education Analysis 10h ago
AI cannot replace you video

AI cannot replace you

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“She plays e.g. the piano and shows how music can offer a strategy to "resist closure" too youtu.be/DXRYMo9BDY0?...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij

“She plays e.g. the piano and shows how music can offer a strategy to "resist closure" too youtu.be/DXRYMo9BDY0?...”

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Established AI research Research 18d ago
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neural networks mysterianism mechanism paper

Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

4 experts discussed this · 17 posts
Shannon Vallor: I was in two intensive week-long workshops this year with neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists and not *one* thought LLMs are conscious, or that anything is ‘mysterious’ in a model…
Shannon Vallor: Because none of those scientists and philosophers were on an AI company payroll
rev. howard arson: fwiw it is actually a reallly interesting question but it is interesting in terms of "what about the optimization dynamics results in this phenomenology" rather than "is the thing making an accurat…
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Established AI research Research 18d ago
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scientific model prediction roles commentary

On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025)

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Olivia Guest: Slight update to our — @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social — preprint, I added this table to help tease these out: > A glossary for some of the key terminology we use to discuss …
Iris van Rooij: Slight update to our — @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social — preprint, I added this table to help tease these out: > A glossary for some of the key terminology we use to discuss …
Olivia Guest: Will try my best to check! Migraine 🫠
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Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago
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mdpi.com

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Mary Branscombe: I don't find the "AI tools train you to rely on them" thing very compelling, like yeah, that's how good tools work. It sucks when someone takes away your phillips screwdriver or your autocomplete I…
Mary Branscombe: the magnetic plate in the box the screwdriver lives in needs to come with a hand that grabs the screwdriver, the spare bit and the screw and places them on the plate when I forget
alanau.bsky.social: I think maybe the difference is that we aren't using AI to do anything we couldn't do just fine without it. Maybe this is a failing of imagination, like maybe we should be trying to figure out what…
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3 experts · 27 posts · 13d ago
Iris van Rooij VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser
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“setting aside the strict question of possibility, imo the affordances of the tech make it easy to do badly and hard to do well” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Anthony Moser: This is unsurprising because ai generated code *is* ai generated text. Code is text. People think code is different because you can test to see if it runs. But that just tells you if it runs (or pa…
Anthony Moser: Whether the program makes sense is about the relationship of the program to the larger world, the human processes in which it is embedded It is, by definition, external to the program. That's what …
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