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Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Opposing the inevitability of ai at universities is possible and necessary Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings - YouTube Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Analysis 8h ago
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AI slop knowledge destruction critique

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eileen Clancy 🧿 Abstract Tesseract

“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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Developing Compute & infrastructure Resource 1d ago
critical computer website resource

critical.computer

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dwayne Monroe

“feeling really burned out, so I redrew the computer in the top and bottom to be a bit haunted 😌”

“🧵A shout-out to @olivia.science whose marvellous work in progress, 'Critical Computer' I highly recommended - critical.computer”

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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
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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.”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@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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Developing AI research Research 1d 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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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“the paper on reverse engineering I linked to has many references on this / what happens if you grant formal realism / naive computationalism / makeism see, e.g. doi.org/10.1007/s421... doi.org/10.1007/s110... doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...”

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Developing AI field signal Resource 1d ago
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OSF

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“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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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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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 1d ago

Opposing the inevitability of ai at universities is possible and necessary

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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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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Established AI field signal Resource 5d ago
AHM math recommendations resource

Recommendations — AHM

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Iris van Rooij Joshua Grochow Jed Brown

“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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Established Compute & infrastructure Development 6d ago
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data centers taken to court podcast

- YouTube

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

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...”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“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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