Robin T.
@drrobinthomas.bsky.social
Professor, mathematical psychologist, guitarist and singer
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See ken walker’s ridiculous tech-utopian opinion piece. He argues it’s time to stop thinking about AI harms/risks & to start deploying at scale? Jaw dropping.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
Likely one of the worst pieces of advocacy in the history of mankind. Google’s Ken Walker suggests “The true measure of these models’ value is whether Americans are actually using them.” Really. So rampant illegal drug use demonstrates its value? This is nonsense, even by Google’s abysmal standards.
thehill.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
See ken walker’s ridiculous tech-utopian opinion piece. He argues it’s time to stop thinking about AI harms/risks & to start deploying at scale? Jaw dropping.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
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It's really frustrating to see so many world leaders abandon principles and common sense to get on board with the AI hype train.
If the technology is really as critical as they say then why aren't they employing critical thinking in their approaches?
If the technology is really as critical as they say then why aren't they employing critical thinking in their approaches?
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 6:23 PM
It's really frustrating to see so many world leaders abandon principles and common sense to get on board with the AI hype train.
If the technology is really as critical as they say then why aren't they employing critical thinking in their approaches?
If the technology is really as critical as they say then why aren't they employing critical thinking in their approaches?
Thanks for letting us know. Won't be watching it now
The show, which follows David’s ascent to King of Israel, used four times as much AI this season, including for many of its battle scenes. www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Amazon’s ‘House of David’ Used Over 350 AI Shots in Season 2. Its Creator Isn’t Sorry
The show, which follows David’s ascent to King of Israel, used four times as much AI this season, including for many of its battle scenes.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thanks for letting us know. Won't be watching it now
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Ahoy @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social - I'm researching local alternatives to 'cloud' based ML and 'AI' systems (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP etc.) - for example, Mac Mini clusters. Has Radboud published anything about the infrastructure the Uni uses for computational modelling etc?
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Ahoy @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social - I'm researching local alternatives to 'cloud' based ML and 'AI' systems (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP etc.) - for example, Mac Mini clusters. Has Radboud published anything about the infrastructure the Uni uses for computational modelling etc?
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"There's not enough upward mobility in society"
Yes. Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.
Yes. Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Afternoon reports that some Democratic Senators may yield completely to Republican demands in return for the mere scheduling of a December vote to keep premiums affordable for those relying upon the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This would represent trading something for nothing.
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Afternoon reports that some Democratic Senators may yield completely to Republican demands in return for the mere scheduling of a December vote to keep premiums affordable for those relying upon the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This would represent trading something for nothing.
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Dissolution is letting them off too lightly
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Dissolution is letting them off too lightly
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This is such a polite way of saying it too because it was unhinged and virulent racism and sexism not chewing with his mouth open — and standardly not "a discovery he made". Women are so gracious to a pure hater, liar, and abuser even in death.
Sorry we had to endure him.
Sorry we had to endure him.
I met James Watson at a local conference in graduate school.
Watson apparently “over-learned that his bad manners were tolerated because of the greatness of the discovery he had made.”
Kindness is a legacy that he failed to leave.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
Watson apparently “over-learned that his bad manners were tolerated because of the greatness of the discovery he had made.”
Kindness is a legacy that he failed to leave.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This is such a polite way of saying it too because it was unhinged and virulent racism and sexism not chewing with his mouth open — and standardly not "a discovery he made". Women are so gracious to a pure hater, liar, and abuser even in death.
Sorry we had to endure him.
Sorry we had to endure him.
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
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There is something deeply rotten at the heart of modern tech that goes well beyond the corruptions produced by capitalism.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
There is something deeply rotten at the heart of modern tech that goes well beyond the corruptions produced by capitalism.
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There was a paper in Science few years back claiming that they could get temporal precision on the scale of ms from _fMRI_ data. It caused quite a discussion in the lab I worked at. Turns out, it's been retracted this September: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Is there a thread about it somewhere?
Retraction
On 14 October 2022, Science published the Research Article “In vivo direct imaging of neuronal activity at high temporospatial resolution” by P. T. Toi et al. (1). On 24 August 2023, Science ran an Ed...
www.science.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There was a paper in Science few years back claiming that they could get temporal precision on the scale of ms from _fMRI_ data. It caused quite a discussion in the lab I worked at. Turns out, it's been retracted this September: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Is there a thread about it somewhere?
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Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
Lawrence and Haruki Embodiment and reflection - Pakistan Observer
IN the vast landscape of world literature, a few writers have explored the depths of human experience as vividly as D.H. Lawrence and Haruki
pakobserver.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
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Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.
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Neat that my review of Zhang et al.'s "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI" was quoted in this Research Briefing. It was one of my favorite papers I reviewed in 2024! rdcu.be/eOlTT by Jiahe Zhang, @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and others
Evidence from 7 Tesla fMRI of intrinsic network supporting allostasis in the human brain
Nature Neuroscience - Functional connectivity analyses using ultra-high precision 7 Tesla functional MRI identified a unified system for allostasis and interoception that included more than 96% of...
rdcu.be
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Neat that my review of Zhang et al.'s "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI" was quoted in this Research Briefing. It was one of my favorite papers I reviewed in 2024! rdcu.be/eOlTT by Jiahe Zhang, @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and others
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On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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THEY FUCKING KNEW AND DID NOT CARE!!! absolutely evil
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
THEY FUCKING KNEW AND DID NOT CARE!!! absolutely evil
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All these universities should be sued.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
All these universities should be sued.
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I have my students co-develop class policies, and they pretty much unanimously chose to ban AI in the class. There were a few questions about using Grammarly, but those were the only real exceptions any students expressed (and even then, we talked about alternatives to that and they were open to it)
‘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...
www.ru.nl
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I have my students co-develop class policies, and they pretty much unanimously chose to ban AI in the class. There were a few questions about using Grammarly, but those were the only real exceptions any students expressed (and even then, we talked about alternatives to that and they were open to it)
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I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
He started using ChatGPT for help with homework and eventually it ended up helping him to commit suicide...
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
Any time you use it, you feed the monster. There is no positive use case that justifies the harm it does. Just stop
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Any time you use it, you feed the monster. There is no positive use case that justifies the harm it does. Just stop
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Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
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"plenty of decisions are already being taken on the basis of physical appearance"
uuhhh, what argument is this???
we are already racist, so let's continue?
uuhhh, what argument is this???
we are already racist, so let's continue?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
"plenty of decisions are already being taken on the basis of physical appearance"
uuhhh, what argument is this???
we are already racist, so let's continue?
uuhhh, what argument is this???
we are already racist, so let's continue?
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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yet another desi techbro/engineer claiming authority and expertise where he has none. This guy worked for Raytheon, among other companies, and is trained as a software engineer.
There is something profoundly wrong in the diaspora re technology, fascism--and its past time we acknowledge it.
There is something profoundly wrong in the diaspora re technology, fascism--and its past time we acknowledge it.
![Ajay Gupte, the president of CLCD, told 404 Media the software is simply being piloted at the moment, but that it “allows districts to make the majority of their classroom collections publicly visible—supporting transparency and access—while helping them identify a small subset of titles that might require review under state guidelines.” He added that “This process is designed to assist districts in meeting legislative requirements and protect teachers and librarians from accusations of bias or non-compliance [...] It is purpose-built to help educators defend their collections with clear, data-driven evidence rather than subjective opinion.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7a4j47j42ezdr3au7pxdlzjt/bafkreib6slp2epazrgm3yh75knmpsgs22hm6scotyif2if33p4odfplilm@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
yet another desi techbro/engineer claiming authority and expertise where he has none. This guy worked for Raytheon, among other companies, and is trained as a software engineer.
There is something profoundly wrong in the diaspora re technology, fascism--and its past time we acknowledge it.
There is something profoundly wrong in the diaspora re technology, fascism--and its past time we acknowledge it.