Comment by lysace

7 hours ago

We find the usual types in the signatory list:

  Assistant Professor of Sustainability
  Lecturer in Critical Intersectional Perspectives on AI
  Professor of History and Anthropology
  Assistant Professor of Gender and Diversity in AI
  Professor of English Language and Literature

(From https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20251110_Scie... - to be fair I cherrypicked these.)

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Lapra  7 hours ago

I'll counter your cherrypick with my own:

Dr. Olivia Guest, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Dr. Abeba Birhane, Assistant Professor of AI

Prof. Iris van Rooij, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett, Director of Computer Science Dept., Professor of Computer Science (AI, Software Engineering)

Dr. Alex Hanna, Director of Research, DAIR

Roel Dobbe, Assistant Professor of Public Interest AI and Algorithmic Systems

Dr. Mark Blokpoel, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Dr. Dan McQuillan, Senior Lecturer in Critical AI

Dr. Ronald de Haan, Assistant professor of Artificial Intelligence

Joost Vossers, PhD Candidate on Artificial Intelligence

Dr Esther Mondragón, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

Prof Eduardo Alonso, Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Andrea E. Martin, Research Group Leader, Language and Computation in Neural System

Dr. ir. Gabriel Bucur, Assistant Professor in Statistical Machine Learning and Explainable AI for Health

Prof. M. Dingemanse, Professor of Language and Communication & cofounder, EU Open Source AI Index

All of these people definitely stand to very much directly benefit from AI hype.

  • topynate  6 hours ago

    The first two people you mentioned co-wrote a paper titled "Towards decolonising computational sciences" and certainly anyone at DAIR would also be in that ideological cluster. I don't think an absolute majority of the signatories have those sorts of associations, but a good many do. What's puzzling me is why so many are Dutch?

  • lysace  6 hours ago

    From the first two of your cherrypicks' web pages:

    I am committed to [...] the broader decolonisation of cognitive and computational sciences. My research interests comprise (meta)theoretical, critical, and radical perspectives on the neuro-, computational, and cognitive sciences broadly construed.

    and

    Central to my research is challenging and dismantling societal and historical inequalities and power asymmetries; holding responsible bodies accountable; and paving the way for a future marked by just and equitable AI systems that work for all.

    Notice a theme?

biophysboy  6 hours ago

“Usual types”: you included a history professor and an English professor, which are arguably better candidates for judging the quality/accuracy of LLM writing than a CS professor.

Insanity  7 hours ago

This is really cherry-picked as you call out. Plenty of computer science related signatories as well.

And besides, a professor of e.g Anthropology can still advocate for critical thinking and evaluating claims.