“Computational (…) cognitive science (…) can only flourish if we (a) do not confuse AI systems for minds or theories, (b) do not confuse machine learning for the scientific method, and (c) understand that our computational models can track only the scope and limits of our understanding.”
Iris van Rooij 💭
Published version now available in Current Directions in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Iris van Rooij 💭
The current AI hype cycle combined with psychology’s various crises make for a perfect storm. Psychology, on the one hand, has a history of weak theoretical fou...
✨ Updated preprint ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
