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Iris van Rooij

Professor of computational cognitive science; critic of AI hype

Professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University, where she leads the Computational Cognitive Science group. Argues that claims about AI understanding and AGI are built on mistaken assumptions about cognition, and that computation alone cannot account for human-level understanding; blogs regularly at irisvanrooijcogsci.com.

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Key arguments & positions

  • Argues claims about AI understanding and AGI rest on mistaken assumptions about cognition — that computation alone cannot account for human-level understanding.
  • Criticizes the field's scaling narrative, arguing that more data and compute do not resolve the conceptual gaps between pattern matching and cognition.

Accomplishments

  • Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at Radboud University's School of Artificial Intelligence, principal investigator at the Donders Institute, and leader of the Computational Cognitive Science group; also a guest professor at Aarhus University.
  • Co-author of widely discussed papers and essays critiquing AI hype, including work on the limits of computationalism.

Papers & key writings

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Iris van Rooij — Posts

Blog posts by Iris van Rooij, a cognitive scientist whose writing covers cognition, computation, and critical perspectives on AI claims.

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irisvanrooijcogsci.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
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Computational Complexity for Hype Immunity (Iris van Rooij)

A cognitive scientist walks through concepts from theoretical computer science that help you sanity-check hyped claims about what AI can and cannot do.

Why I recommend it: Free reading, technical in places but plainly written. Useful the next time a headline claims an AI system can "solve" a whole field.

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irisvanrooijcogsci.comAdded Sep 22, 20260 opens

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