Do you enjoy working in an international and interdisciplinary environment? Do you value inclusive education, and do you want to foster academic integrity and critical thinking in students? This position may be for you! In this (temporary, 1 year) position you will be responsible for coordinating and teaching a new Academic Skills course for Bachelor [...]
Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI" capabilities. [A version of this blogpost also appeared as a thread on social media. I transformed it [...]
I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed, but if you find this post helpful and reuse/adapt the text for [...]
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 [...]
