Alejandro Javier Ruiz Iglesias

I'm a PhD student at the University of Vermont's Computational Story Lab.

Select writing and talks

• False memories to fake news: The evolution of the term “misinformation” in academic literature
• Matters arising: A response to loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots
• Tokens, the oft-overlooked appetizer: Large language models, the distributional hypothesis, and meaning
• We Have Always Been at War with Computers: Vermont Philosophy Week in 2025.
• Information System Membranes. Talk presented at Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics's 2025 conference at the INDEP miniconference.
• Social Eyes and Observables. Talk presented at 8th Annual Congress of the French Association for Political Economy in 2024.

Projects

• The Luddite: An anti-capitalist technology blog.
• International Network for Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP): Founding member and on the operations committee since its founding.

Media

• How Walgreens’ Sloppy Covid-19 Test Registration System Exposed Patient Data, published in Vox (I was the researcher who uncovered the data leak, not the author).
• AI Chatbot Credited With Preventing Suicide. Should It Be? 404 Media covers our Matters arising.
• Serious Inquiries Only, Episode 477+478. Interviewed to debunk bad AI research, including about our response in NPJ Mental Health.

Contact

me@alejandrojavierruiziglesias.com