✨ 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

Het bleef stil na de historische stemming voor burgerinitiatief My Voice, My Choice afgelopen woensdag. "Door hierover niet te publiceren, blijft breedgedragen bezorgdheid én steun onzichtbaar." Mijn brief vandaag in NRC.

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

Leve @felienne.bsky.social 💪🏾 Waarom denken wij ineens dat ‘ongeveer’ genoeg is? www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

@kconrad.bsky.social is the call for issue 2 public? 😍

Believe it or not, I’ve heard this sort of opinion even from students who use AI.The pressure many feel to use it is so high. I hate it. When I teach my first iteration of my Critical Perspectives on AI & Digital Tech course next fall, we’ll have at least a week on imagining alternative futures.

Full paper here: zenodo.org/records/1706...

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

also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Have you seen this paper? It kinda says the same thing I think: philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU

"AI has always been a marketing phrase that erodes scientific inquiry and scholarly discussion by de- sign, leaving the door open to pseudoscience, exclusion, and surveillance" philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU

Couldn't agree more with the concluding quote from Jesse Hagopian: "That work — the real work of teaching and learning — cannot be automated."

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"

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

“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

New article on Sam Altman's long history of abusive, toxic, manipulative, duplicitous behavior (those aren't my words, but the words of people who have directly interacted with him). The guy is a complete conman, worthy of the derogatory moniker "Scam Altman." Read more:

✨ 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

Epistemicide

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-...

Surprise, surprise. Here we go. “The European Commission is proposing a pause to parts of its landmark artificial intelligence laws amid intense pressure from Big Tech companies and the US government.” www.ft.com/content/af6c...

every couple of years it keeps coming back! arxiv.org/abs/2202.08674

With the aggravating habit of labelling those who refuse to accept the newly established nonsense as difficult at best and usually a troublemakers.

This is the favourite argument nowadays. Let's bless the status quo. This is "the reality", so why not embrace it? It seems to me that it already reflects the quantitative/probabilistic (central tendency) approach of genAI to truth.

"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?

This is important to understand the status quo IMHO: > Liberals consider fascists stupid, while considering communists evil. Fascists think everyone is stupid, except themselves and their imaginary ‘superior men’.

“Flying pigs are also possible in principle; possible in principle bakes no bread.” — Jerry Fodor (2005, p. 27) Screenshot from: van Rooij, Guest, et al. (2024). 'Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science’: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I think this by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and Mark is super relevant too: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/par...

At first glance I thought scientism feels closer than fascism for this particular context, but now idk. Do you get to “science explains why my “race” is superior and others inferior” without fascistic thinking?

from within science, like scientism, or generally, like fascism?

Is there a term (beyond racism) to explain why they keep updating skull measuring? Just cuz they aren’t expressly using calipers doesn’t mean the caliper spirit is not interwoven into “we can tell your personality (and whether we should hire you) from your photo.”

I just tried to share this paper as an answer to a colleague sharing the open letter (openletter.earth/an-open-lett...) as well as other critical opinions on the mailing list of teachers of the faculty of sciences… and the dean of the faculty (who moderates the list) rejected my email. 🙃

My presentation on "AI and the destruction of knowledge" is available on Zenodo. At the 10th AISA Annual Conference, we discussed the overall picture that emerges from the work of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1754...

have published about this long and well. We're deluding ourselves by using these things and claiming they work. They don't work, it's confirmation bias. What we're doing is removing the human factor from the equation and preparing the field for failure and fallacy

You also have to start from the assumption that the machine doesn't know anything. It is al algorithm. It doesn't read, it doesn't know what words or experiments are. That's the right framing. The rest is incorrect. AI scholars like @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social +

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.

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.

My students are really sick of being harassed by chatbots popping up when they are writing.

Ah yeah like constraint satisfaction problems, wherein I assume you permit "felicitous falsehoods" as Elgin says. You might like her book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026203653...

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)

This is consistent with what I see from my students

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 🗣️📢 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Science washing

I did not coin it tho! nyslibrary.libguides.com/c.php?g=1357...

“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”.”

LLRX republished the blogpost www.llrx.com/2025/08/ai-s...

“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 🧐

“What is there to teach with respect to typing some text into a box and then mindlessly copy-pasting the output? Such a skilless relationship disregards our pedagogical commitment to foster a critical stance in our students and colleagues” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1706...

‘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/...

Referencia bibliográfica: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ www.ru.nl/en/research/...