logical inference brains neural networks paper
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“@andreaeyleen.eurosky.social and I address that actually in the cited 2023 paper: doi.org/10.1007/s421...”
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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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critical AI essay olivia science
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“"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/”
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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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academics reject uncritical AI adoption
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“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...”
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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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“also this from doi.org/10.31234/osf... with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social”
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Olivia Guest: & bots end up being addictive in the sense of a subset of the users being converted into chatting to them as if they are people and then a subset from there goes on to become detached fully from fr…
Luke Stark: & bots end up being addictive in the sense of a subset of the users being converted into chatting to them as if they are people and then a subset from there goes on to become detached fully from fr…
Olivia Guest: It's not addictive like a substance if that's what you mean. Behavioural addictions are just a turn of phrase. Is it incredibly harmful like an addiction to a substance could be? Yes.
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neural networks mysterianism mechanism paper
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“🍃 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...”
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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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Microsoft 365 Copilot analysis
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“Were that true, Microsoft would not have included detailed indemnifying language in the EULA for Copilot (including agents) as I detail at the linked doc: padlet.com/verdigris21/...”
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Dwayne Monroe: I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
Iris van Rooij: I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
Iris van Rooij: Thank you for making this and sharing! 🙏
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“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 😎”
“🍃 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...”
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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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“It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains @olivia.science … ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial pr…”
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“It's from here but it's down: www.ru.nl/en/research/...”
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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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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper
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“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…”
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“"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…”
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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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AI slop knowledge destruction critique
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“Btw, kind heads: this is AI generated slop "definition" See also: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...”
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Iris van Rooij: Something that may be difficult for non-experts to grasp is that experts can recognise when a student’s text is not meaningfully connected to cited literature in the expert’s area of expertise.
Iris van Rooij: Not unrelated to this irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
Iris van Rooij: And related to this bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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AI entryism critique essay
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“Also see: Baba, A., Cook, D. M., McGarity, T. O., & Bero, L. A. (2005). Legislating “sound science”: the role of the tobacco industry. American Journal of Public Health, 95(S1), S20-S27. doi.org/10.2105/AJPH... For examples of extreme entryism: olivia.scien…”
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Emily M. Bender: Is there something in the water this week? It seems like the "AI" stans are more upset than usual at the thought that their chatbot idols are no more than interactive fiction and a large dollop of …
Olivia Guest: confirming it; seeing it from my account too
Iris van Rooij: Is there something in the water this week? It seems like the "AI" stans are more upset than usual at the thought that their chatbot idols are no more than interactive fiction and a large dollop of …
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critical AI literacies summer school
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“Thank you so much for sharing @dim-ah.bsky.social It was such a pleasure and privilege to have you at our Critical AI Literacy Summer School, and so grateful you are spreading the knowledge 🙏❤️☀️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s...”
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Iris van Rooij: ☀️ 📚 A joy to be at this week’s Summer School ‘Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming’. Grateful to our amazing and brilliant team 🙏 @marentierra.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @altibel…
Olivia Guest: Wish I could have been there but still in bed 🥲
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AHM math recommendations resource
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“Those are things that have long been broken about conference reviewing. I don’t think the answer (yet) is to universally force AI into part of the review process: www.ahmath.org/recommendati...”
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Jason Hartline: AI review policies seem to be written to prevent laziness, with little recognition that AI can enhance the way reviewers evaluate the paper including (a) checking appendix proofs, (b) detailed comp…
Jason Hartline: None of the things listed above are things that we can do when reviewing conference papers without AI. And I don't really want to review papers anymore without doing these things. Of course, the pr…
Jason Hartline: bsky.app/profile/jaso...
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“"Capacities are not tasks" -- van Rooij & Guest (2026) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...”
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Iris van Rooij: Published version now available in Current Directions in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Olivia Guest: Published version now available in Current Directions in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“🍃 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...”
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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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data centers taken to court podcast
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“☀️ 📚 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/🧵”
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“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...”
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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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OSF open science framework platform
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“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”
“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…”
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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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“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...”
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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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