"[These] promises are all false. In this article we explain how and why. [Our] alternative approach disavows attempts to automate science—using machine learning or otherwise—and instead centers scientists’ own cognition." -- me and @olivia.science
Iris van Rooij 💭
"Psychological scientists predominantly prefer to ignore such real-world harms and instead ask: “How can AI benefit us?” This is understandable. After all, hyped AI promises to deliver candidate theories and statistical inferences through automated processes, also known as “machine learning."
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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...
