Iris van Rooij 💭

Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Radboud University | School of Artificial Intelligence | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour | Guest Prof at Aarhus University | she/they 🏳️‍🌈

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2025-12-13

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself. The capacity to think, write, and communicate effectively is fundamental to being a conscious participant in democratic society. When these capabilities are delegated to machines, we create a population that consumes and regurgitates information without actually processing or understanding it.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-inf

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2025-12-13

Don't make solutions looking for problems

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2025-12-06

Ethics’ AI Policy for Editors, Reviewers, and Contributors:
"attributing some example or objection to ChatGPT could be just as problematic as attributing an objection to your colleague when all they did was tell you about some objection that Rawls raised"
@pluralistic @mcp @giacomo @Iris @olivia

journals.uchicago.edu/journals

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Jan Walraven ⁂janwlrvn@social.coop
2025-11-29

"When researchers used #Khanmigo's Harriet Tubman #AI, which is already concerning, and asked questions about black history, the bot actually quoted Kanye West and said that 'slavery was a choice'."

#LLM -based chatbots to help students learn? Dr. Tiera Tanksley explains why this is a very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.

Via @Iris

youtube.com/watch?v=5mtcSL4S3HQ

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2025-11-21

Based on research by my colleague Gunes Acar:

‘The President of the Government of Spain announces an investigation against META over the possible violation of the privacy of millions of users’.

lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/presi
#tech #law #privacy #surveillance #spain

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2025-11-15
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2025-11-11

It was great to chat with @Iris

Her work is an important part of the fight to save academia from being destroyed by Gen AI... a very real threat.
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!

Share, share!

stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-hero

Screenshot of linked webpage: Anti Gen AI Heroes: Iris van Rooij is trying to rescue academia from the evil bots
Iris van Rooij 💭Iris@scholar.social
2025-11-08

✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿

Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:

@olivia Guest, et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. zenodo.org/records/17065099

youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO2BTGSNQ

#Critical_AI_Literacy

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2025-11-08

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None. On the contrary, automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia and @Iris

project-syndicate.org/commenta

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστolivia@scholar.social
2025-11-07

@Steve_Lindsay @Iris

“Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing. Critical reflection cannot be reduced to a mere ‘check box’ before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life[.] Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm." Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15677839

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2025-11-07

My presentation on "AI and the destruction of knowledge" is available on Zenodo. At the 10th AISA Annual Conference, we discussed the overall picture that emerges from the work of
@Iris @olivia @abebab @pluralistic @randomwalker
zenodo.org/records/17545448

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2025-10-30

@Iris @olivia Great article--thank.you. And as if to demonstrate the dumbness of the algorithm...

Below the article "HAND picked" to read next: "Universities in the Age of AI: Andrew Wachtel explains how higher education must evolve to prepare students for the workplace of the future"
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2025-10-30

@Iris @olivia 👏👏👏 ‘In response, the AI industry has lobbied government agencies to mandate the use of its products, claiming that without them, students will be unprepared for the job market. What is actually needed is the opposite: scholars with expertise in AI-related fields must have the freedom to critique these technologies, while those in other fields must be able to teach without interference by companies seeking to cash in.’

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2025-10-29

@RandamuMaki Hoi. Wij zijn niet uitgenodigd om het te ondertekenen. Het NRC heeft dat gelukkig achteraf gerectificeerd, maar helaas lezen veel mensen dat dan niet meer.

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/25/zeven

Dus hopelijk kun je je stem heroverwegen. :bij1_heart: Want BIJ1 is de meest queer vriendelijke partij van Nederland. Zie pagina 68 van bij1.org/wp-content/uploads/20 (pdf). Zie daarnaast ook hoe wij eerder in de Tweede Kamer opkwamen voor de LHBTQIA+ gemeenschap, in het bijzonder de trans gemeenschap.

Correctie (25 oktober 2025 om 17.56 uur): In een eerdere versie van dit bericht werd de suggestie gewekt dat BIJ1 en 50Plus het akkoord niet hebben ondertekend. De partijen lieten later weten niet te zijn uitgenodigd voor de stemming. Dat is hierboven gecorrigeerd.
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2025-10-29

Met één zetel maakt #BIJ1 het verschil in de gemeenteraad van #Utrecht. Hoe doen ze dat?

Naomi (#2) en Teun (#3) gingen langs bij Stevie (#20) Noura (#7) en Marie-Louise (#12) op het gemeentehuis in Utrecht.

Stem BIJ1 de Tweede Kamer in, om daar ook het verschil te maken!

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2025-10-29

DOORBRAAK: BIJ1 in de peilingen.

Vandaag kunnen we BIJ1 terug de Kamer in stemmen als IEDEREEN meedoet.
Elke stem die je vandaag nog weet te bewegen voor BIJ1 zal meetellen!

Laat het weten zodra je hebt gestemd en inspireer anderen om hetzelfde te doen.

Doe eerlijk. Stem BIJ1. Lijst 18.

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2025-10-29

new meta-analysis on the question of whether prebunking manipulations against misinformation simply make participants more skeptical overall or actually enhance discrimination abilities
… a signal detection analysis supports the latter

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

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Jan Walraven ⁂janwlrvn@social.coop
2025-10-29

“Studenten aanmoedigen om #ChatGPT te gebruiken? Ik val van mijn stoel als ik dat hoor.”

Luc Steels – de "vader van #AI in België" – ondertekende net als andere Belgische academici de open brief “tegen het onkritisch invoeren van AI in hoger onderwijs” van @olivia en @Iris.

Ik sprak onder meer ook met taaltechnoloog Katrien Beuls en computerwetenschapper @wim_v12e over hun verzet tegen genAI aan universiteiten.

apache.be/2025/10/23/als-ai-we

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