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AI skill degradation early results study
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“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…”
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“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...”
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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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“Obviously, it's the business school. Can I return to my theme of "AI bullshit reveals that everything was bullshit all along"?”
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“What are we even doing here? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...”
students reject Gen AI conscientious objectors
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“"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think edu…”
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Iris van Rooij: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
Iris van Rooij: “(...) they wanted to work together across their human differences to negotiate new ideas and find ways of expressing them. And they didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to generative AI. Th…
Olivia Guest: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
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open letter AI academia adoption
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“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science”
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“Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their na…”
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Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
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critical AI essay olivia science
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“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”
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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: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
Olivia Guest: Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/
Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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Generative AI engineering disaster essay
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“"AI...making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models...are so resource-hungry that tech companies...purchasing 70% of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage." The opposite of what we expect from new technologie…”
“This was written in personal capacity and only speaking on my behalf. Article: www.theatlantic.com/technology/...”
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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...”
“*exhaustedly taps sign* see: doi.org/10.31235/osf... and this from @abeba.blacksky.app: doi.org/10.48550/arX...”
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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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“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”
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Olivia Guest: New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM"…
Olivia Guest: Maybe many mid-career and above academics have my experience, and so can relate, but it never ever gets any less impressive, overwhelming, or old when a student appears our of nowhere (notice our g…
Olivia Guest: Anyway, back to the work itself (from the abstract): > Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal [...] and pragmatic accommodation that treats LL…
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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper
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“In 2023, someone asked ChatGPT to give a list of counter arguments to the preprint version of this paper, and the list of arguments was clearly based on my previous work, and not on the paper itself. The paper uses a very different kind of argument, but thi…”
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Iris van Rooij: What, in your opinion, is the strongest anti-computationalist argument out there?
Iris van Rooij: Here, by 'computationalism' I mean the metatheoretical thesis that cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation. See eg link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: Was not rhetorical, but I wonder if question was understood? bsky.app/profile/iris...
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AI slop knowledge destruction critique
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“See also irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...”
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Iris van Rooij: Hi @vascobrazao.bsky.social, going to share some things in thread :) bsky.app/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij: bsky.app/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij: “The latter demonstrates nicely the core flaw of LLMs, i.e., they cannot read and summarize, because they have no understanding or knowledge.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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academics reject uncritical AI adoption
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“And this which is now published here: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p... 🌞 Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 2/2”
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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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AI models Zenodo research deposit
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“Read here about @olivia.science 's view on Models Guest, O. (2026). Models. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
“3️⃣ for those who make excuses for AI, or stats in general, in "scientific settings" without any critical reflection, see the thread below and this manuscript: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... I might come back and add more later, but maybe this is enough for now. ☺…”
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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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uncritical AI academia adoption critique
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“"[U]niversities must take their role seriously to a) counter the AI industry’s marketing, hype & harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. (...) [W]e include pointers to relevant wo…”
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“And this which is now published here: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p... 🌞 Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 2/2”
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Olivia Guest: I already thought of: - "Laborwashing" (Red; "AI will liberate workers by alleviating them from boring labor" shit) - Greenwashing - Ethicswashing (blue) - Pinkwashing (I think they do pinkwashing …
Olivia Guest: Wow need to check this properly later
Iris van Rooij: Thanks @ethicsofai.bsky.social for mentioning! Here a reference. See highlighted sentence.
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“OK, maybe these are useful for your exploration. Hopefully, but please ignore of course if not. I'll link you directly to where there is the full paper and related threads as much as possible. 1/ PDF: doi.org/10.31234/osf... bsky.app/profile/oliv...”
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Olivia Guest: ? bsky.app/profile/eryk...
Olivia Guest: What exactly are you looking for if useful I can suggest readings? Especially if you're interested in academic work.
Olivia Guest: OK, maybe these are useful for your exploration. Hopefully, but please ignore of course if not. I'll link you directly to where there is the full paper and related threads as much as possible. 1/ P…
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NYC mayor AI school generative moratorium
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“Quote is from: philpapers.org/rec/FODMFF, Chapter in The Robot's dilemma. The frame problem in artificial intelligence (Ed. Z. Pylyshyn, 1987): archive.org/details/robo...”
