Eamon Duede

New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

George Pólya famously said that `it is better to solve one problem five different ways than five problems one way.' He'd be sad to learn what we found: RLVR pushes LLMs in exactly the opposite direction, toward solving each problem in just one way! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2610.11064

I think more and more that @eduede.bsky.social has a crucial point. "Intelligence," "understanding," "writing" — AI is fragmenting these concepts by putting us in a position to see that the phenomena we thought they fused are only *correlated* and can be unbundled.

Silvia De Toffoli and I wrote a guest article for Terence Tao's blog in response to the recent AI Navier-Stokes result. We argue that the 'AI has "solved" mathematics' idea rests on two assumptions, both seductive & plausible, but both wrong. #philsci #AI #math terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a...

Humanistic AI conference at Duke (9/25-6), full schedule forthcoming but speaker/title list is up! We have an amazing line up - @tedunderwood.com @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social + others; if in area, please come! sites.duke.edu/humanisticai...

Postdoc in Integrated History & Philosophy of Modern Science at my alma mater #HPS program at Notre Dame. $75K +$15K research funds Deadline Dec 1st. #PhilJobs #philsci #philsky #histSTM #histmod philjobs.org/job/show/31869

Excellent @randomwalker.bsky.social essay on how frontier labs might navigate various layers of the value stack to survive. open.substack.com/pub/aisnakeo...

Nice talk by @randomwalker.bsky.social at #icml www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...

Nature did a nice, accessible write up of a recent piece I wrote with @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and @carlbergstrom.com. Also, check out Carl's more detailed thread (with link to the paper in both). "Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."

New preprint with @carlbergstrom.com, Kevin Gross, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social. See Carl's thread. Surprise! Even if LLMs work perfectly, they'll make scientists refine their work less deeply, because they raise the opportunity cost of time, pushing researchers to do more, less well.

#philsci #philsky

Women's shoes louder than men's shoes... besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If you're at #ICLR and interested in #humanities centered work on #AI (plus a radical take on the problem of #LLM hallucination), check out our paper arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722 on Fri, Apr 24 at 11:15 AM – 1:45 PM PDT Pavilion 3 P3-#1819. Joint work w/ @richardjeanso.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social

As AI starts proving theorems, a question becomes urgent: when does a formal derivation correspond to a particular proof idea—not just prove the same theorem a different way? @simondedeo.bsky.social and I argue this 'correspondence problem' has been hiding in plain sight. arxiv.org/abs/2603.13680

The talk is based on a paper I co wrote with @eduede.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social & Patrick Sui that is accepted and forthcoming at ICLR 2026. Here's the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722

The schedule and RSVP link for the CAIC launch event is now live on our website 🚀 Check the schedule and RSVP to attend ✏️ caic.centers.purdue.edu

Cool postdoc: hiring someone with training in philosophy + computational methods to study how AI is transforming epistemic norms & practices across academic fields of knowledge. Can vouch the PI is both a fantastic advisor & person. Great academic network too: Purdue to CMU to Chicago to Princeton.

New paper on Why Slop Matters w/ great group of co authors (@hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social @ari-holtzman.bsky.social + others not on Bluesky) from ACM AI Letters. We try to move the debate re: AI Slop past normative, neg claims & towards parsing its social uses. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...

New on the Archive: Avigad, Jeremy (2026) Mathematical Understanding. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27708/

New on the Archive: Duede, Eamon and Friedman, Daniel (2025) Epistemic Gaps and the Attribution of (AI) Discovery. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27719/

Excited this piece is finally out in Philosophy of Science. We argue that, paradoxically, we can have certainty about theorems in math, the proofs of which we can never understand. That's weird and tells us something important about why we do math in the first place #philsky tinyurl.com/3dxxb98a

Reviewer 2 may have used the autopen during the final days of the Biden administration

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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Twin cities friends: I'll be speaking tomorrow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science on how AI disrupts the sometimes precarious balance of scientific incentives.

One of the best #philsci conferences in one of the best cities: the 2026 BSPS Annual Conference is taking place in Leeds 21–23 July. Keynotes by Robin Hendry, Tarja Knuuttila & Eleanor Knox. More info: www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an... #philsky

it’s crazy because no one knows what the aim of science is

In 1977 computers proved the 4Color Theorem. Human's can't check that proof, but trust it because they understand it. Now #AI can generate proofs we'll never understand. Can we trust those? In a new paper out in PhilSci @philscijournal.bsky.social, we argue yes! with a catch: tinyurl.com/yhmnrx5m

AI use & coverage are growing quickly & recently across academic fields arxiv.org/pdf/2405.15828

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying. Deadline: October 1, 2025 Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

The plan is to threaten to primary the diseases

feels... relevant www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Uy...

I had such a great time doing this program and can't recommend it highly enough.

Just called and spoke with a very nice staffer. Not giving up.

Open postdoc position at @sfiscience.bsky.social to work with my fantastic colleagues on "emergent engineering": santafeinstitute.teamtailor.com/jobs/5463514...

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going. It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

With Wikipedia under attack, it's important to remember that its articles source and cite *very high quality* science AND serve to amplify public access to that science! @wikipdia.bsky.social is probably the best public knowledge repository we have: asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

philsci-archive has been down for a couple of days... @philsci.bsky.social

ht @eloiseboisseau.bsky.social credit smbc-comics.com

Here's an amazing study, about bullshitting -- the idea of claiming knowledge and expertise in areas you don't actually understand. Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....