Iris van Rooij 💭
@IrisVanRooij
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Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | @AI_Radboud | @[email protected] on 🦣 | https://t.co/KqXdMRFczv | she/they 🏳️🌈
The Netherlands, Nijmegen
Joined February 2013
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour (@CompBrainBeh). Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
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Amsterdam Centraal Station. Twee dagen voor de verkiezingen. “Geef haat geen macht.” ❤️✊🏽
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Research integrity demands: Honesty, Scrupulousness, Transparency (open source & reproducibility), Independence, Responsibility. Most commercial 'AI' flunks these tests. https://t.co/0IYCEJ3fhP (6/7)
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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. For these...
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Don’t anthropomorphise. LLMs mimic form, not truth—confidently wrong, citationless, and divorced from scholarship—flooding classrooms with plausible nonsense. https://t.co/0IYCEJ3fhP (5/7)
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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. For these...
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It deskills. Offloading writing/coding to chatbots hollows out the very skills universities exist to build. Like banning calculators in early maths, we should ban AI tools where core learning happens. https://t.co/0IYCEJ2Hsh (4/7)
zenodo.org
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. For these...
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Harms aren’t abstract: conflicts of interest, ethics-washing, censorship of critics, data/labour extraction, and heavy water/energy use for data centres. The costs are social and environmental. https://t.co/0IYCEJ3fhP (3/7)
zenodo.org
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. For these...
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'AI' is a marketing label from the 1950s, now used to blur science with sales. Bundled bots in everyday software normalize surveillance and pseudoscience—and staff/students get no real say. https://t.co/0IYCEJ3fhP (2/7)
zenodo.org
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. For these...
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Universities: stop sleepwalking into 'AI'. It’s hype-laced tech imposed without consent, eroding academic freedom, integrity, and learning. Read the manifesto: https://t.co/0IYCEJ3fhP (1/7)
zenodo.org
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. For these...
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Action: reject default adoption, protect curricula, teach critical AI literacy, and align procurement with academic values and sustainability. Defend the ecosystem of human knowledge. https://t.co/0IYCEJ3fhP (7/7)
zenodo.org
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. For these...
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Universities racing to "find the best way to use AI in teaching." It's a bit like asking: what’s the best way to keep a chocolate teapot? Maybe start by asking if it actually holds anything. https://t.co/0IYCEJ3fhP
zenodo.org
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. For these...
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If there's one thing you read today/this week/this month... this superb article, countering the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. https://t.co/kDYlctSrJv
zenodo.org
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. For these...
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Abajo Carlos enlaza la versión divulgativa del paper en el que se posicionaron en @ZENODO_ORG : Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia https://t.co/BQguaYbedh
zenodo.org
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. For these...
La IA erosiona la libertad académica, debilita la lectura crítica y subordina la búsqueda del conocimiento a los intereses corporativos. Iris Van Rooig y Olivia Guest @ProSyn
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia https://t.co/wmebAZxO15
apache.be
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI” https://t.co/1ch4jl9WlV
apache.be
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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It's good to see Luc Steels (AI pioneer with whom I collaborated in 2007-2008) take a sensible position regarding LLMs in education: “Universities that encourage students to use ChatGPT? I’m stunned to hear something like that.” https://t.co/f3CMgkwV8I
apache.be
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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Vale, no me hagáis caso, que yo no soy famoso, pero ¿le podéis hacer caso a científicos que llevan décadas trabajando en lenguaje e IA y DEJAR DE IMPLANTAR YA LA IA GENERATIVA EN EDUCACIÓN? (¿Veremos un movimiento científico como éste aquí alguna vez?) 😡 https://t.co/ur969Bdw4v
It's good to see Luc Steels (AI pioneer with whom I collaborated in 2007-2008) take a sensible position regarding LLMs in education: “Universities that encourage students to use ChatGPT? I’m stunned to hear something like that.” https://t.co/f3CMgkwV8I
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Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @AI_Radboud’s @o_guest and @IrisVanRooij.
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Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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