Computational Cognitive Science
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Account of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Donders Institute, Radboud University
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
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November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
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LLM = a lossy database
I don't know which paper this is an extract for. But, it's just a lossy database essentially. There's no learning in any sense other than metaphorically, but the anthropomorphism is to sell products not to help explain. 1/n
A new paper argues that current generative AI tools offer little benefit for genuine learning unless students already have substantial prior knowledge. genAI gives probabilistic summaries, not the kind of support that builds expertise.
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
LLM = a lossy database
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"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social
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They love to say it's a way to help underserved groups of children too. Extra scary.
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa....
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November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social
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The same applies to medicine.
Rich people will have human doctors.
Poor people will have LLMs
Rich people will have human doctors.
Poor people will have LLMs
"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social
☹️
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They love to say it's a way to help underserved groups of children too. Extra scary.
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The same applies to medicine.
Rich people will have human doctors.
Poor people will have LLMs
Rich people will have human doctors.
Poor people will have LLMs
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Perhaps counterintuitive but guardrails are full-blown cognition in the case of models that contain data from the web which obviously also contains inappropriate content. Only human cognition at that point can sort this data into appropriate for a child or not.
www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
www.ru.nl
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Perhaps counterintuitive but guardrails are full-blown cognition in the case of models that contain data from the web which obviously also contains inappropriate content. Only human cognition at that point can sort this data into appropriate for a child or not.
www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
🧵
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AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."
“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.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."
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Writing with Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij (both professors of Computational and Cognitive Science) with a punchy polemic about the smoke, mirrors and profound societal dangers they see in the unregulated rush to adopt AI.
“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.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Writing with Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij (both professors of Computational and Cognitive Science) with a punchy polemic about the smoke, mirrors and profound societal dangers they see in the unregulated rush to adopt AI.
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We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research
by Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
by Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>
We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu
papers.ssrn.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research
by Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
by Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Yet again: can we accept that the current technology of generative AI is an inherently fascistic product, and should be treated as such?
Just as fascism is not inevitable, neither is the invasion of genAI into every aspect of society - especially education and academia.
Just as fascism is not inevitable, neither is the invasion of genAI into every aspect of society - especially education and academia.
“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.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yet again: can we accept that the current technology of generative AI is an inherently fascistic product, and should be treated as such?
Just as fascism is not inevitable, neither is the invasion of genAI into every aspect of society - especially education and academia.
Just as fascism is not inevitable, neither is the invasion of genAI into every aspect of society - especially education and academia.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'".
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November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'".
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"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'".
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November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Thanks, Iris!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thanks, Iris!
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“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.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“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.”
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just sharing here as I was reminded it's on github, in case people wanna make copies: github.com/oliviaguest/...
the cogsci hexagon: A visual depiction of the connections between the Cognitive Sciences
the cogsci hexagon: A visual depiction of the connections between the Cognitive Sciences
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
just sharing here as I was reminded it's on github, in case people wanna make copies: github.com/oliviaguest/...
the cogsci hexagon: A visual depiction of the connections between the Cognitive Sciences
the cogsci hexagon: A visual depiction of the connections between the Cognitive Sciences
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i can't possibly promote this work enough. it's is packed with wisdom and clarity and everyone should read it.
— from two astounding people @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social that you should follow here.
worth your time.👇
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
— from two astounding people @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social that you should follow here.
worth your time.👇
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
i can't possibly promote this work enough. it's is packed with wisdom and clarity and everyone should read it.
— from two astounding people @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social that you should follow here.
worth your time.👇
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
— from two astounding people @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social that you should follow here.
worth your time.👇
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Oh duh how could I forget to reference. Read the whole thing, it's excellent.
Guest, O. et al (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Guest, O. et al (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
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 col...
doi.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Oh duh how could I forget to reference. Read the whole thing, it's excellent.
Guest, O. et al (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Guest, O. et al (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Our resources page has been updated with @danmcquillan.bsky.social's Resisting AI book (he researched Gen AI as an instrument for fascism before a lot of us knew!) and @olivia.science's Critical AI website full of her academic research on the harms.
stopgenai.com/related-link...
stopgenai.com/related-link...
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our resources page has been updated with @danmcquillan.bsky.social's Resisting AI book (he researched Gen AI as an instrument for fascism before a lot of us knew!) and @olivia.science's Critical AI website full of her academic research on the harms.
stopgenai.com/related-link...
stopgenai.com/related-link...
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I signed it, what about you?
Please consider doing so. Thanks.
Please consider doing so. Thanks.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I signed it, what about you?
Please consider doing so. Thanks.
Please consider doing so. Thanks.
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“Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing."
-- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).
-- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
“Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing."
-- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).
-- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).
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Thanks @marentierra.bsky.social !
It is so important to emphasise this. I am constantly arguing with my colleagues who do not seem to understand this point while happily writing books on AI and education. They have an "idealised middle ground" view on this issue, which is deeply infuriating.
It is so important to emphasise this. I am constantly arguing with my colleagues who do not seem to understand this point while happily writing books on AI and education. They have an "idealised middle ground" view on this issue, which is deeply infuriating.
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Thanks @marentierra.bsky.social !
It is so important to emphasise this. I am constantly arguing with my colleagues who do not seem to understand this point while happily writing books on AI and education. They have an "idealised middle ground" view on this issue, which is deeply infuriating.
It is so important to emphasise this. I am constantly arguing with my colleagues who do not seem to understand this point while happily writing books on AI and education. They have an "idealised middle ground" view on this issue, which is deeply infuriating.