Computational Cognitive Science
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Account of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Donders Institute, Radboud University
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the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
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@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree
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Brilliant letter...was happy to sign.
Politicians need to stop listening to corporations peddling "magic" machines and start following the research.
Politicians need to stop listening to corporations peddling "magic" machines and start following the research.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Brilliant letter...was happy to sign.
Politicians need to stop listening to corporations peddling "magic" machines and start following the research.
Politicians need to stop listening to corporations peddling "magic" machines and start following the research.
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Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
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It was great to chat with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. Her work is an important part of the fight to save academia from being destroyed by Gen AI... a very real threat.
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It was great to chat with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. Her work is an important part of the fight to save academia from being destroyed by Gen AI... a very real threat.
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
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Last month, I also interviewed her frequent research collaborator, @olivia.science
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dr. Olivia Guest’s Dire Warning to Academia – Stop Gen AI
stopgenai.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Last month, I also interviewed her frequent research collaborator, @olivia.science
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
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Her statement explains why the EU are suddenly u-turning on GDPR and privacy laws in favour of allowing AI companies to skirt around them.
She's most likely on the payroll now.
She's most likely on the payroll now.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Her statement explains why the EU are suddenly u-turning on GDPR and privacy laws in favour of allowing AI companies to skirt around them.
She's most likely on the payroll now.
She's most likely on the payroll now.
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Proud to be a signatory on this. Please read and sign if you agree. ✍🏽
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Proud to be a signatory on this. Please read and sign if you agree. ✍🏽
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Citizens already face AI harms: discrimination, privacy-violations, psychological and environmental harms. Instead of effectively addressing these harms and stopping companies from exploiting workers and stealing creative work, the President is promoting AI hype that serves these companies.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Citizens already face AI harms: discrimination, privacy-violations, psychological and environmental harms. Instead of effectively addressing these harms and stopping companies from exploiting workers and stealing creative work, the President is promoting AI hype that serves these companies.
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Please sign letter to stop the AI hype:
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Please sign letter to stop the AI hype:
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Here we go!!! Please do consider signing! Olivia @olivia.science and her peer peeps act as scholars owe to do, as we all owe to.
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Here we go!!! Please do consider signing! Olivia @olivia.science and her peer peeps act as scholars owe to do, as we all owe to.
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“Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth”
Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐
Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth”
Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐
Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐
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“Huh?! This is definitely not how we—cognitive scientists—use that term. Then I saw the last sentence, “AI-generated definition”, and I realised what went wrong. This was AI slop. Not only that. It was AI slop on ScienceDirect, a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature”.”
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“Huh?! This is definitely not how we—cognitive scientists—use that term. Then I saw the last sentence, “AI-generated definition”, and I realised what went wrong. This was AI slop. Not only that. It was AI slop on ScienceDirect, a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature”.”
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This:
"Now if you are a novice in cognitive science, you may be puzzled and not know what is so wrong about that ‘definition’ in the screenshot above. This is the crux. For experts it is obvious!"
Unless you're already competent in a topic, you cannot assess LLM-generated text.
"Now if you are a novice in cognitive science, you may be puzzled and not know what is so wrong about that ‘definition’ in the screenshot above. This is the crux. For experts it is obvious!"
Unless you're already competent in a topic, you cannot assess LLM-generated text.
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This:
"Now if you are a novice in cognitive science, you may be puzzled and not know what is so wrong about that ‘definition’ in the screenshot above. This is the crux. For experts it is obvious!"
Unless you're already competent in a topic, you cannot assess LLM-generated text.
"Now if you are a novice in cognitive science, you may be puzzled and not know what is so wrong about that ‘definition’ in the screenshot above. This is the crux. For experts it is obvious!"
Unless you're already competent in a topic, you cannot assess LLM-generated text.
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Open letter, led by @olivia.science, now has >1400 confirmed signatories!
If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
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If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Open letter, led by @olivia.science, now has >1400 confirmed signatories!
If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Epistemicide
Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
August 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Epistemicide
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“In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.”
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Il...
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. ...
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October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.”
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
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Particularly taken by this quote...
"By normalizing the use of AI products in academia, universities contravene codes of conduct and contradict their own missions and betray their core values, harming science and society in the process"
"By normalizing the use of AI products in academia, universities contravene codes of conduct and contradict their own missions and betray their core values, harming science and society in the process"
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Particularly taken by this quote...
"By normalizing the use of AI products in academia, universities contravene codes of conduct and contradict their own missions and betray their core values, harming science and society in the process"
"By normalizing the use of AI products in academia, universities contravene codes of conduct and contradict their own missions and betray their core values, harming science and society in the process"
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Couldn't agree more with the concluding quote from Jesse Hagopian:
"That work — the real work of teaching and learning — cannot be automated."
"That work — the real work of teaching and learning — cannot be automated."
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Couldn't agree more with the concluding quote from Jesse Hagopian:
"That work — the real work of teaching and learning — cannot be automated."
"That work — the real work of teaching and learning — cannot be automated."
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I encourage my students to access scholarship in various formats to shake up their brains a bit. I wasn't expecting this item to pop up in a YouTube reading—a fun surprise! (Giggles and a bit of ad-libbing are included!)
#AI #SpokenWord #TechFun #CriticalAILiteracy
#AI #SpokenWord #TechFun #CriticalAILiteracy
✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿
Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:
Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:
Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia by Guest et. al. (2025)
YouTube video by librebel
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I encourage my students to access scholarship in various formats to shake up their brains a bit. I wasn't expecting this item to pop up in a YouTube reading—a fun surprise! (Giggles and a bit of ad-libbing are included!)
#AI #SpokenWord #TechFun #CriticalAILiteracy
#AI #SpokenWord #TechFun #CriticalAILiteracy
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✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿
Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:
Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:
Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia by Guest et. al. (2025)
YouTube video by librebel
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿
Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:
Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:
Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
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“In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.“
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.“
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"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
‘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’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
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Am being rebellious and actually using some of my work time to read (can you even imagine such a thing in academia...).
This is a really great paper on AI and why the Academy should resist it.
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
This is a really great paper on AI and why the Academy should resist it.
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Il...
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. ...
philarchive.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Am being rebellious and actually using some of my work time to read (can you even imagine such a thing in academia...).
This is a really great paper on AI and why the Academy should resist it.
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
This is a really great paper on AI and why the Academy should resist it.
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
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Guest, Olivia ; Suarez, Marcela ; Müller, Barbara ; van Meerkerk, Edwin ; Oude Groote Beverborg, Arnoud ; de Haan, Ronald ; Reyes Elizondo, Andrea ; Blokpoel, Mark ; Scharfenberg, Natalia ; Kleinh...
Origin | Interest | Match
Origin | Interest | Match
Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Ileana Camerino, Marieke Woensdregt, Dagmar Monett, Jed Brown, Lucy Avraamidou, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez, Felienne Hermans & Iris van Rooij, Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia - PhilArchive
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. ...
philarchive.org
September 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM