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anxiety Olivia Guest , 2 August 2026 Anxiety is usually different to stress only insofar as it is persistent and remains even after the stressor departs. But AI is apparently ever present, always intertwined with everything... so who knows what I feel. I struggle to really comprehend how unwell I am sometimes because of the erosion of what feels like everything, turbocharged by AI. Since joining…
Entry ism Olivia Guest , 18 July 2026 Huh? "AI entryism"? Now that being against AI in an informed way is becoming mainstream, we need to be aware of entryism : the long-term strategy deployed by pro AI people or entities, like companies, to subvert such movements. In the general case it involves essentially enemy actors infiltrating groups in order to influence their ability to act in accordance…
crypt ogyny Olivia Guest , 15 March 2026 Cryptogyny is the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions to, or of their very existence in, a field of study. As Sam Forbes and I say here in the context of teaching programming: Obfuscating women’s interests in and contributions to technology echoes through the ages (Erscoi et al., 2023); see Figure 1. Culinary recipes are archetypal algorithms,…
Why does cheating matter? Olivia Guest , 7 March 2026 introduction It has come up a number of times both on social media and in private conversations that especially junior people in academia, such as PhD candidates, are unable to not use AI. That is so-called artificial intelligence chatbots or similar products (see the this paper here to help understand what this means). They tell me that they…
--> theory Olivia Guest , 1 March 2026 about --> On this page are pointers to materials I have created for cognitive scientists to know where to look to help build a deeper understanding of theories, theorising, and other important reasoning skills. Inspiration to put these together came after a talk I gave at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language (also later at COGS, at the University…
We've been here before! Olivia Guest , 18 February 2026 Marilyn E. Jackler Memorial Collection of Tobacco Advertisements; this from 1969 . What do you mean? We have certainly been here before. Many many times in the past, companies — just like artificial intelligence (AI) companies now — have lied to us to sell us products. Not only is there no reason to assume the AI industry is different, there…
Turing Test Olivia Guest , 15 February 2026 about what is this page? I have collected extracts of my writings on the Turing test , which Alan Turing referred to as the Imitation Game . For the reader, this page merely assumes you're interested in what I have to say on this topic. And so, below are a chronologically ordered series of extracts — in each case you may want to click through to the full…
Critical AI The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. — Ada Lovelace (1843) She was talking about the Analytical Engine , which was…