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Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions +2 more reaction maps further down
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Anthony Moser
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”

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“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

4 experts discussed this · 46 posts
Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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Established AI research Research 16d ago
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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nicole Rust
“One paper I thought a lot while writing was this by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al (linked in my piece; I recommend). There's a role for AI for "assessing whether something is computationally possible or not, in principle and in practice." link.springer.co…” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Nicole Rust Abstract Tesseract
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“One paper I thought a lot while writing was this by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al (linked in my piece; I recommend). There's a role for AI for "assessing whether something is computationally possible or not, in principle and in practice." link.springer.co…”

Opportunity & adoption

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“"no finite set of ‘impressive’ observations about AIs/LLMs establishes that they exhibit a (human) cognitive capacity. (...) if we propose that a machine has a cognitive capacity X, we must also formally charactise X such that the machine’s capacity Y can b…”

2 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Iris van Rooij: Footnote 23 in Reclaiming AI: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: "no finite set of ‘impressive’ observations about AIs/LLMs establishes that they exhibit a (human) cognitive capacity. (...) if we propose that a machine has a cognitive capacity X, we must also fo…
Olivia Guest: Footnote 23 in Reclaiming AI: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Established AI field signal Analysis 7d ago
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academics reject uncritical AI adoption

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“See, e.g., Section 4 in our position paper for an overview of how the principles can be applied to 'AI': 📝 @olivia.science , @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Educatio…” evidence ↗
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Margaret Mitchell Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“See, e.g., Section 4 in our position paper for an overview of how the principles can be applied to 'AI': 📝 @olivia.science , @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Educatio…”

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“or if you prefer text: Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

4 experts discussed this · 112 posts
Olivia Guest: if you hate LaTeX then raw text works too because remember: journals are supposed to typeset stuff for us: we pay them
Olivia Guest: or git, but depends how you work ofc
Olivia Guest: not a fan, but yes, a very good idea
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Developing AI research Research 1d ago
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logical inference brains neural networks paper

On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks - Computational Brain & Behavior

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“@andreaeyleen.eurosky.social and I address that actually in the cited 2023 paper: doi.org/10.1007/s421...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“@andreaeyleen.eurosky.social and I address that actually in the cited 2023 paper: doi.org/10.1007/s421...”

4 experts discussed this · 254 posts
Olivia Guest: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Olivia Guest: You sound daft right now. Worry about that. Don't worry about me.
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Opposing the inevitability of ai at universities is possible and necessary

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“It's from here but it's down: www.ru.nl/en/research/...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
2 experts discussed this · 15 posts
Iris van Rooij: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Luke Stark: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Iris van Rooij: See also bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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ru.nl

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Iris van Rooij, Olivia Guest
“So proud of our work and amazing CAIL team and collaborators!! www.ru.nl/en/research/...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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Established Culture, work & education Research 12d ago
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tech industry hijacks AI ethics research agenda

The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it - Discover Artificial Intelligence

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“I don't understand why they are not more worried and working on this either! Gerdes, A. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. Discov Artif Intell 2, 25 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s441...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“I don't understand why they are not more worried and working on this either! Gerdes, A. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. Discov Artif Intell 2, 25 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s441...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Iris van Rooij: not that the other philosophies of ethics are any better lost trust in ethics
Olivia Guest: not that the other philosophies of ethics are any better lost trust in ethics
Olivia Guest: I think it's a huge problem for the context Iris is talking about Gerdes, A. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. Discov Artif Intell 2, 25 (20…
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3 experts · 27 posts · 13d ago
Iris van Rooij VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser
Matches Research & technical analysis
“An interesting thing about the process of software architecture is that you can modularize code. This gives you a macroscopic and microscopic view on any module: does the module do the thing it’s s…” 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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2 experts · 6 posts · 16d ago
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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“These slop machines are now pushed on us and our students by publishers, and unis provide no protections nor any support in helping researchers, teachers and students to fight back the pollution bs…” evidence ↗
Iris van Rooij: 3️⃣ & 4️⃣ have become very urgent very quickly. Also see @benpatrickwill.bsky.social's. Among @etuce.eurosky.social's members there are many worries, but we also need to prioritise due to limited r…
Iris van Rooij: Would be good if the unions can act because the situation is getting dire bsky.app/profile/iris...
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