Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodelinghttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mlthsvrjf224Given that we suck at not overprojecting onto non-human objects, but we also think ascribing intention to them can sometimes be useful, should we switch to talking about models’ “so-called reasoning” or “fake thinking traces?” [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlthsvrjf224https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mlthsvrjf224Given that we suck at not overprojecting onto non-human objects, but we also think ascribing intention to them can sometimes be useful, should we switch to talking about models’ “so-called reasoning” or “fake thinking traces?” [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlthsvrjf224https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mkqo5cwvf22oMy post doesn‘t mistake why the automation of science enterprise gets the nature of science fundamentally wrong. Saying that people production is a function that's hard to ignore is not inconsistent with saying that people must define what is scientifically valuable. Weird to frame it as opposed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqo5cwvf22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mkojwdvmtk2rYay, another paper by Berna and Erkan to dismantle wishful thinking about how clear-cut replicability is as a signal of good science. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 02:10 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkojwdvmtk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mkocukxh2225I wonder which of the strategies we use to make research more relatable or concrete for people will also boost LLMs’ ability to judge science. Things like showing examples of the task so reader can judge if problem seems real are disincentivized as it is, would be a shame if AI makes that worse. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkocukxh2225https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mkdi4um2is2oNew post on AI, self-preserving compassion, and how none of us are immune to it. https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicahullman/p/the-best-minds-of-my-generation-are25 Apr 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdi4um2is2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mk3yjun5sc2rWhen does using AI to produce research slip into fraud? And why does so much AI-for-science 'optimism' actually rest on a deeply pessimistic view of scientific agency? 🤔 New post: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/22/fraud-and-the-false-optimism-of-ai-for-science/22 Apr 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3yjun5sc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mjhnqxflc22dIn “Six Memos for the Next Millenium”, Italo Calvino distilled six literary virtues he felt should endure regardless of how the world changed. As we enter an age of automated evaluation & production of science, what are the parallel epstemic virtues we should try to preserve? We want your input! 🧵14 Apr 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhnqxflc22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3miw6ippq6c2bThe real metascience nightmare will be when journals start using AI to require that authors actually followed their preregistration. Personally, I can’t wait. So many people having to eat the silly “our preregistered study” claims slapped all over their papers regardless how much they deviated.07 Apr 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3miw6ippq6c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mioocx67es2iThis essay captures what AI for science debates often fail to recognize: That in many academic fields, people creation is the main goal. That the supervision IS the science. That the real threat is "a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/04 Apr 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mioocx67es2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mii5q4rl7s2cI don't think co-authors need to agree on AI usage. It's still on you to read over what co-authors write and decide if you're ok with it. It's still on you to decide what you're willing to put your name on. The only thing that's changed is that there's new ways to be embarassed, ie, obvious AI-isms [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Apr 2026 02:26 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mii5q4rl7s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mi575xoll22yWhen did poetry get so irrelevant & could AI increase demand for experimentation & jaggedness in creative writing? It's kind of striking how abstraction & experimentation in writing have never been celebrated like in visual art. Could this ever change? https://jessicahullman.substack.com/p/stop-making-sense28 Mar 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi575xoll22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mi2ikvjgqs2dLooking forward to giving a talk at the Likert symposium today on validating LLM simulations as behavioral evidence, with a bit as well on why treating LLMs purely as human stand-ins for traditional social science misses the bigger picture27 Mar 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2ikvjgqs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mhorskjse22tTook a break today from more serious writing to consider what LLMs might do for human writing--maybe even free it from making sense, the way photography freed art from reproducing reality. Could poetry become more "violent," and what would that even look like? https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicahullman/p/stop-making-sense?r=6ppvp&utm_medium=ios23 Mar 2026 00:16 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhorskjse22thttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mhguda64zk2rSome news to keep from my husband [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhguda64zk2r