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Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

My keynote at ICML 2026

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...

Mathematical proofs are often said to justify their conclusions by indicating the existence of a corresponding formal derivation. We argue that this widespread view relies on an under-examined notion ...

LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...

AI-generated “slop” is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop which deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social funct...

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A Priori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Mathematical Discovery

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

Twenty-five years ago, Ted Chiang wrote a prescient science fiction short that began: “It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, makin...

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Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery

America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over.

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology