📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨ Thread with my favourite quotes 👇 1/🧵

This paper link.springer.com/article/10.1... Proves the Ingenia Theorem, which basically brackets the AI learning problem as NP hard. NP hard means that one needs exponentially growing resources to learn more and more things. Scaling is a chimera and we should stop wasting resources on this.

. @olivia.science et al present that compelling case (ironically when I opened the pdf, Adobe asked if I'd like an AI summary).

"We and our students can choose not to use these technologies. Just like we have banned smoking from public spaces, we could foster that process of banning both by choosing to individually quit smoking & by demanding regulation of the tobacco industry” Guest et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1706...

Check out this short piece I wrote, based on my recent visit to the Critical AI Literacy symposium at Radboud University, organised by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @olivia.science and others: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

In een open brief aan de politiek stellen wetenschappers een AI-aanpak voor die uitgaat van mens, natuur en democratie. ibestuur.nl/data-en-ai/e...

#IA #Technofascisme L’anti-intellectualisme d'extrême droite, mais avec une couche de techno-charabia ésotérique pour le justifier. Une technologie n'est jamais "juste" une technologie. Il faut toujours s'intéresser à son usage.

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When you sign 🖊️ don't forget to confirm the email you receive 📩 Otherwise your name will not show up. Thank you for your support! 🙏 🇬🇧 English version: openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a... 🇳🇱 Dutch version: openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...

"Let us join forces to build a future that is not only desirable but also truly worth striving for—one grounded in common sense rather than automated thoughtlessness" Open letter to Dutch government and forming parties Join me in signing 🖊️ 🙏 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

'Fixing' the bubble is beyond our scope inasmuch as we aren't yet ready to depose Capital. I propose however, that @olivia.science and colleagues have provided a powerful guide to help challenge and move beyond: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Proudly published with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: A metatheory of classical and modern connectionism. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... We touch on what has been up with connectionism as a framework for computational modelling — & for everything it seems these days with AI and LLMs — pre-2010 vs post. 1/n

How many times must we keep saying this? Correlation does not imply cognition www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...

"automated science community" is an oxymoron Science cannot be automated youtu.be/2bdK_zu1Ikw

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Yeah, but the idea of a pattern is not as simple as you make it sound. It's important to understand there's no automatic science or automation of cognition possible at all. Provably so. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social The whole argument about tools acting on our behalf... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

📝 OPEN LETTER 📝 Are you based in NL 🇳🇱 ? Do you also want government to thoughtfully shape our digital future, with care for people and nature? Please share and sign 🖊️ this letter addressed to parties forming the new Dutch government and outgoing administration. 📝 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

In order to build guardrails AI would have to have comprehension, which it does not.

Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

Yup. Whole paper on this if you want my opinion bsky.app/profile/oliv...

And me saying it directly if that helps www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

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science cannot race ahead in isolation but must learn instead to slow down.

Even before reading the paper, the diagram and caption have me agreeing with the premise. What's scary is we seem to have stopped applying critical thinking, conceptual clarity, respecting expertise, etc. to our public discourse ever since the advent of TV, then social media, and now LLMs.

Insightful discussion of versions of connectionism in psychology, cognitive sciences, AI. Long thread with links. #PsychSciSky 🧪

This is indeed for people in the Netherlands (of which, I'm one) to sign *however* I encourage everyone to study and adapt the points made to and for your location. There's lots of hand wringing and analysis but as a hard materialist I always elevate clear eyed response. This is that.

Useful context: bsky.app/profile/lekk...

If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co: "Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a... Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social

Pure excellence.

“Formal results like this ironically show that solid computational thinking — taking computationalism seriously (Guest and Martin 2025b; Guest, Scharfenberg, et al. 2025) — undercuts AI misinformation.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 15/🧵

NEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡 osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society." openletter.earth/open-letter-...

“Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world . . . " zenodo.org/records/1778...

“Conceptual clarity is the idea that terms should refer . . . " zenodo.org/records/1778...

"AI cannot be allowed to drive change, even positive change, in education or research. Instead cultivation of and adherence to shared values and goals must guide us." ❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏

“We propose in research and educational settings, CAILs can take shape along different dimensions (see Figure 1), which serve as basic values for us, when we perform our academic duties, and to share with our students.”— @olivia.science et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1778... 5/🧵

Besides an opportunity to list out all the terms/quotes I've been collecting, this third Zine volume highlights all the hard work around Critical AI Literacies that @olivia.science and colleagues have been doing, including the brand new paper "Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies"

I hope you explore the Zine for yourself to see the other references included and enjoy the previous volumes too if you've just found my Padlet. Happy reading!

I love zines so much and I'm especially honoured @cgsunit.bsky.social quoted me @marentierra.bsky.social and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social in this one. It's such great work! 🤩 padlet.com/laurenUU/ai-...

Een paar foto's van de demo. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥

That's us! Please keep signing: openletter.earth/open-letter-... More here: olivia.science/ai#activism

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥 Waarom gaan we opnieuw staken? Het kabinet Schoof heeft €1,4 miljard bezuinigd op onderwijs. Tijdens de formatie wordt erover beslist. Er is kans op herstel, maar hoger onderwijs kan ook zomaar als ‘pinautomaat’ worden gebruikt voor defensie-investeringen 😣

“Women who think critically are always labeled difficult because it saves the world from admitting they’re right” — bell hooks Repost of Charmaine Simpson, on LinkendIN: www.linkedin.com/posts/blackh...

“a fundamental aspect [of CAILs] is the assertion that AI cannot be allowed to drive change, even positive change, in education or research. Instead cultivation of and adherence to shared values and goals must guide us.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1778... 2/🧵

“[Critical thinking is a] vital skill under rising fascism, planetary crises, and the onslaught of technosolutionism.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 13/🧵

“[Critical thinking is a] vital skill under rising fascism, planetary crises, and the onslaught of technosolutionism.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 14/🧵

Dimension 1: CONCEPTUAL CLARITY 🔍 “Conceptual clarity is the idea that terms should refer” — Guest, Suarez, & van Rooij (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 6/🧵