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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 names. https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

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  There are more openly anti AI women than men, so if you see manels (panels of all men) or events where there are very few or no women involved on the academic speaking side (not in the organisation/teaching), it's safe to conclude that there is something very strange afoot to say the least. https://olivia.science/cryptogyny 1/n

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  OK, it's honestly very distressing and worrying and I have ADHD, so I wrote it all down to get it out of my head https://olivia.science/entryism/ Enjoy, I guess... > Now that being against AI in an informed way is becoming mainstream, we need to be aware of entryism: the long-term strategy deployed by pro AI people or entities, like companies, to subvert such movements. 1/n

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  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" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21222978 1/

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  Short piece with @andrea and @Iris that aims to address errors on our understanding of the role of scientific models. This is deeply related also to AI misuse seen everywhere not just psychology, as we explain: On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19983695

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  Thank you to all who did the translating of our Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia — can't believe we have: Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish 💥‼️ ✍️ sign here: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0 🌏 all languages here: https://olivia.science/ai/#activism

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  Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869 Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

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  really enjoyed this chat with @Iris @hagenblix and Victor Gomes on "AI, Knowledge Work and Education" — thank you so much for having us Common Notions / Hagen & co! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLukICD_Lek

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  reminder... > Anybody can ‘win’ a marathon if driven by car. Does that make it a weakness of the marathon race as an endurance event? Or does it reflect a deeper category error on our behalf, like with the misapplication of statistical tests, that an assumption has been violated? https://scholar.social/@olivia/115315373231397050

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  @samhforbes and I: > LLMs are labor intensive, are economically infeasible, and pollute the environment, and these properties may outweigh any proposed benefits. For example, poor quality air directly harms human cognition, and thus has compounding effects on educators' and pupils' ability to teach and learn. To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70058

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  In activist spaces there's always this balance, maybe even a full blown dialectic, between trying to engage with those who disagree and protecting ourselves from them, especially those who actively want to harm us. These decisions are delicate and often personal as well as collective. 1/

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  Touched grass today, but the cool kids were eating it

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  > John Stuart Mill said that his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, “was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings[. On Liberty] belongs as much to her as to me.” In his Autobiography, he says > With regard to the thoughts [expressed in the book], it is difficult to identify any particular part or element as being more hers than all the rest. The whole mode of thinking of which the book was the expression, was emphatically hers. https://dailynous.com/2026/...

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  If a guy named Geoffrey Jefferson can figure this out in 1949... "The mind of mechanical man." British Medical Journal https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.4616.1105 1/

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  I absolutely cannot speak for or about heavy users of AI but those that I know who were acquaintances were very prone to appreciate sophistry and flattery and very anti expert and have been so from before AI. This is a problem caused inter alia by underfunded education and mental health services. And this is true for academics as well as the general public, just to be clear. They love to only listen to their own knowledge basically regurgitated back https://scholar.social/@olivia/1151578287395...

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  RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/114937371955556197 Published! What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040583 Thank you to Andy Wills https://www.andywills.info for inviting me to his SI (Advanced Studies in Human-Centred AI) — and furthermore, for being up for me completely disagreeing with so many mainstream views on HCAI! Great reviews too.

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  Reminder if you support us to sign and share if you can! ✍🏻 > Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and national support against AI. Thank you! https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0 https://scholar.social/@olivia/115...

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  This is the issue with theoretical work these days. Data isn't collected as means unto itself unless we've lost the point of experiment & observation. Without explicit theory to house data it's meaningless. Duhem-Quine, underdetermination of theory of by data is lost on people. https://olivia.science/theory 1/n

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  RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116311635914645389 > The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008. https://blue-stocking.org.uk/2024/06/14/ada-lovelace-the-first-computer-programmer/

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  When you feel no shame for being a sellout and destructive towards higher education and writing skills... https://www.ru.nl/en/radboud-into-languages/courses/write-smarter-with-generative-ai

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  > While people often misconstrue generative AI refusal as an ignorant, avoidant, fear-driven position, generative AI refusal builds on accurate research about the various ethical harms associated with generative AI, as well as disciplinary principles in writing studies. https://refusal.blog/2026/04/07/why-abstinence-only-sex-education-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-generative-ai-refusal/

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  All my preprints on OSF are 404ing. If anybody needs that work, please reach out as I want to give them time to address it before we reupload everything. But please email me or coauthors if you need the PDFs. I always assumed DOIs were stable. How strange.

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  The UK has allowed AI slop nonsense to be made into laws... > Writing a law is not something for which there is a technological solution. It is not a perfectible process, it is a moral act that requires belief and responsibility. It is a process of debate. [...] Reading is thinking, and writing is thinking, and thinking is power. And when the inefficiencies of human thought, deliberation and opinion are cleared aside, we are left asking: who is in charge? https://www.newstatesman.com/te...

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  race realists are so insidious... how can he even be getting jobs and not laughed out of the room? > Cofnas is not conducting legitimate academic research into race and intelligence but instead spreading pseudoscience. https://www.brusselstimes.com/2020013/ughent-under-fire-for-hosting-self-proclaimed-race-realist-philosopher also race realism is just a hilarious euphemism for racism, of course 1/

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  CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. https://olivia.science/ai

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  I'm still processing but I watched Dirty Business (not even done yet) & while I knew a lot about this & lived in Ox, I'm completely beguiled by the almost direct parallel to what we're going through with AI. I'm at a heightened awareness of our role as academics. https://theconversation.com/englands-sewage-scandal-hinges-on-lack-of-water-industry-regulation-new-docudrama-reveals-how-profit-drives-pollution-276699

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  RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116357032470708831 Loads of chat and even discourse about so-called AI literacy, but I don't think most realise you need to teach things from quite a few angles and zoomed out. If people want to just know how the models work, that's not always possible without a much wider base anyway... Our offering below: 1/n

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  #introduction: My name is Olivia Guest, and I am an assistant professor of computational cognitive science at the Donders institute & the school of Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University. My main research interests are developing and critiquing frameworks, theories, and pre-/post-formal and computational models as used in #cognitiveneuroscience #AI #psychology & #congitivescience generally. For more about me or my work, check out my website (https://oliviaguest.com) or as...

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  Hi all, my "What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives" Lorentz workshop, keynote (https://youtube.com/watch?v=67X0TpnQeO0) paper is finally out — with shamelessly stolen title ‼️ What makes a good theory, and how do we make a theory good? http://psyarxiv.com/8fxds 1/

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  Please, repost and consider working for us at the Radboud school of AI, where you will teach programming in the Artificial Intelligence BSc and MSc programmes and have diverse research that can be embedded in the Donders Institute! EDI is important and required too. More info here: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/lecturer-in-programming-skills