Marcela Suarez, Olivia Guest and I co-organise a Summer School Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming, June 22-26, 2026, at Radboud University, in The Netherlands. The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices [...]
Occasionally, I make threads on social media about papers and books that I read. It helps me focus and process deeper when I share highlights and thoughts with others. In this blogpost, I compile a selection of threads and posts, focussing specifically on work by women in cognitive science (broadly construed). Recommendations for readings are [...]
(one time Dutch post about value-driven AI, motivated in part by scientists' ideas for the upcoming elections in The Netherlands)
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16905560 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 the moment. To my surprise and dismay, I hit upon [...]
Perhaps one of the most persistent myths in science—one that also pervades public perception of science—is that it provides a value-free method to arrive at objective Truth, with a big ‘T’. This myth is so persistent that we seldom question it within science. Perhaps it is even taboo to question it. This is illustrated, for [...]
Here, I compile a set of videos that complement a course on computational complexity for cognitive scientists that I co-teach with Nils Donselaar. We use the textbook Cognition and Intractability, that I co-authored with Mark Blokpoel, Johan Kwisthout, and Todd Wareham. Chapter 1 is freely available here. Why care about computational complexity? This video is [...]
Have you heard these claims? "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent!" or "At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!" In a recent preprint, my co-authors and I explain why, and present a formal proof that, such claims are false and misleading. (...) the field of AI is in the grip of a dominant paradigm [...]
Here I collect a selected set of critical lenses on so-called1 'AI', including the recently hyped ChatGPT. I hope these resources are useful for others as well, and help make insightful why we need to remain vigilant and resist the AI hype. I expect to be updating this blog as time passes. If you have [...]
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2023) Stop feeding the hype and start resisting. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16608308 Three weeks ago, I wrote a blogpost about how ChatGPT is a "stochastic parrot" (a term coined by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, & Shmitchell, 2021; see also this video for an explanation) and when used for academic (and other) writing constitutes automated [...]
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2022) Against automated plagiarism. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15866638 I've been asked, in various roles1, to give my opinion on the challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs)2, also known as "stochastic parrots" (Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, & Shmitchell, 2021), for assessing academic writing assignments. A concern seems to be that students legitimately can use [...]
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