Formal Linguistic Competence is not a Monolith: Consequences for LLMs

Formal Linguistic Competence is not a Monolith: Consequences for LLMs

Tommi Buder-Gröndahl (2026). The capacities of large language models (LLMs) remain disputed, but one particular...

Do AI agents have free will, really?

Do AI agents have free will, really?

Hauhio, I., Buder-Gröndahl, T. & Wallenberg (2026) Martela (AI and Ethics 5: 4389–4400, 2025) claims...

Generatiivinen tekoäly pakottaa asiantuntijaorganisaatiot vaikeisiin valintoihin

Generatiivinen tekoäly pakottaa asiantuntijaorganisaatiot vaikeisiin valintoihin

Anna-Mari Wallenberg ja Pauli Waroma: Generatiivinen tekoäly pakottaa asiantuntijaorganisaatiot vaikeisiin valintoihinTekoälyn yleistyessä organisaatioiden on kirkastettava,...

Communication hijacking: strategic communication gone dark

Communication hijacking: strategic communication gone dark

Hautala, M., Luoma-aho, V., & Brown, J. C. (2026). As the polarized information environment and...

Some Problems in the Ethical Impact Assessment of Emerging Technologies and Socio-Technical Visions: Case CityVerse

Some Problems in the Ethical Impact Assessment of Emerging Technologies and Socio-Technical Visions: Case CityVerse

Karvonen, A., Leikas, J., Wessberg, N., Sigfrids, A., Pöntinen, S. (2026) This paper examines methodological...

Reinforcement learning for control and optimization of real buildings: Identifying and addressing implementation hurdles

Reinforcement learning for control and optimization of real buildings: Identifying and addressing implementation hurdles

Kannari, L., Wessberg, N., Hirvonen, S., Kantorovitch, J. & Paiho, S As part of the broader digitalization of society,...

The ambiguity of BERTology: what to large language models represent? 

The ambiguity of BERTology: what to large language models represent? 

Tommi Buder-Gröndahl The field of “BERTology” aims to locate linguistic representations in large language models...

What Does Parameter-free Probing Really Uncover?

What Does Parameter-free Probing Really Uncover?

Tommi Buder-Gröndahl Supervised approaches to probing large language models (LLMs) have been criticized of using...

Revealing the Influence of Semantic Similarity on Survey Responses: A Synthetic Data Generation Approach

Revealing the Influence of Semantic Similarity on Survey Responses: A Synthetic Data Generation Approach

Esko Lehtonen, Tommi Buder-Gröndahl, & Sina Nordhoff Questionnaires are essential for measuring self-reported attitudes, beliefs,...

In defence of mathematical content

In defence of mathematical content

Tommi Buder-Gröndahl Frances Egan has drawn a distinction between two types of content that can...

About Us

Members and Roles

The project is led by Anna-Mari Wallenberg, University Lecturer and Docent in Cognitive Science, at the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki.