🚨Paper Alert 🚨 Did 1st contact with ChatGPT alter sentiment about AI? First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI Work with Eva Schmidt, Mengchen Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, Clara Bersch, @nckobis.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you Francesca, and everyone who attended, for a wonderful evening.

Congratulations to Iyad Rahwan (@iyadrahwan.bsky.social), recipient of the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025, recognizing groundbreaking research in complex systems and data science! 🌍🤖 More info @isi.it: www.isi.it/press-releas...

I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems. I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years. Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor

A word of gratitude to the anonymous reviewers, the unsung heroes of science. We recently had the great fortune to publish in @nature.com. We even made the cover of the issue, with a witty tagline that summarizes the paper: "Cheat Code: Delegating to AI can encourage dishonest behaviour" 🧵 1/n

Delighted that our paper on 'Delegation to AI can increase dishonest behaviour' is featured today on the cover of @nature.com Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD Scholarships If you're interested in studying with me, here's a new funding scheme just launched by @maxplanck.de: The Max Planck AI Network ai.mpg.de Application deadline 31 October

Now out in Scientific American. Great interview with @nckobis.bsky.social & Zoe Rahwan about our recent @nature.com article. People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop... Thanks @rachelnuwer.bsky.social & @parshallison.bsky.social

Thank you @meharpist.bsky.social for handling this paper, and helping us improve it substantially over the revisions. And many thanks for the amazing anonymous reviewers, who gave the paper tough but fair love.

Nature research paper: Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour go.nature.com/3KsDgbG

Why AI could make people more likely to lie Coverage of our recent paper by THe Independent, with nice commentary by @swachter.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Would you let AI cheat for you? Our new paper in @nature.com, 5 years in the making, is out today. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

Symposium on Cross-Cultural Artificial Intelligence We are organizing this in-person event in Berlin on 10 Oct 2025, with a 'School on Cross Cultural AI' on 9 Oct. We have an amazing line-up of speakers (see link) Registration is open, but places are limited: derdivan.org/event/sympos...

Fully funded PhD scholarships at the Max Planck School of Cognition (Deadline Dec 1st) You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty. Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

Great article by the legendary @philipcball.bsky.social about the 'Science Fiction Science Method' that @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @azimshariff.bsky.social recently proposed. [Paywalled but can be accessed by a free sign-up] www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

If you know a 🚨 Scholar at Risk 🚨 please share! I am delighted to share that applications are now open for the MAXMINDS mentoring program.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

The science fiction science method www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can we turn a science fiction thought experiment into an actual experiment? Check out our new @nature.com paper on the "Science Fiction Science" method (summarized by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social below)

I hope our new preprint raises awareness about how LLMs threaten the integrity of online participant pools. We hope leading platforms, such as @joinprolific.bsky.social‬, will act fast to ensure reliable reporting and sanctioning of LLM-use by participants.

🚨New paper alert! "Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research" Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵 w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Nussberger arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390

This is the kind of outcome we foretold six years ago in a paper aptly titled Drivers Are Blamed More Than Their Automated Cars When Both Make Mistakes, with @awad.bsky.social @sohandsouza.info @sydneylevine.bsky.social @maxkw.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

Our latest paper, showing how the public may not have an accurate understanding of actual stakeholder preferences when it comes to AI deployment in government.

🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants? 15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Henrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples. In this paper, published in in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that. 1/5

Great coverage by @sciam.bsky.social of our research on how ChatGPT is influencing the words we use in conversation! Work led by Hiromu Yakura & @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

It is with great pleasure that I share MAXMINDS 2.0, a new Max Planck program to support scholars in danger of displacement by war or natural disasters, and who have limited access to resources and institutional support. If you know affected scholars, please share. www.maxminds.mpg.de

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741 with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov

Learn more about our Global Summit Plenary Session: Future of Global Psychological Science www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/... Reminder: Submissions for #APSGlobal are due TODAY. Submit a poster or roundtable session and join us virtually in October! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Great coverage by The Verge of our work on how ChatGPT is changing the way we speak. The implications are very broad, with AI being potentailly able to conduct mass manipulation of culture and public opinion. www.theverge.com/openai/68674...

My talk on 'Machine Culture' at the Abu Dhabi Culture Summit is out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkN9...

Nudging vs Boosting Listen to my colleague Ralph Hertwig's latest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9r-...

🎨 Art x Science 🤖 Video of my panel with Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Director Stephanie Rosenthal  and artist Henry Tan, moderated by Maya Allison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6U...

New paper for #CogSci2025: People cheat more when they delegate to AI. How can we stop this? We tested: 🧠 Explaining what the AI does (transparency) 🗣️ Calling cheating what it is (framing) Only one worked. w/ @larakirfel.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Raluca Rilla & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

Always a pleasant surprise to see the #MoralMachine make an appearance in the wild now and then. (Last week's Cambridge Disinformation Summit talk by Fabio Motoki) @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @awad.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social

Always nice to be interviewed in my native language. This time by BBC Arabic. يسعدني دائماً إجراء مقابلات في اللغة العربية هذه المقابلة تلخص بعض الأبحاث السابقة و أيضاً أبحاث جديدة حول تأثير الذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي على الثقافة www.bbc.com/arabic/artic...

New from #JRSocInterface: Mutual benefits of social learning and algorithmic mediation for cumulative culture. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

Inspirational talk by @nyhabash.bsky.social on his journey, towards winning the Antonio Zampolli Prize for "Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation within Human Language Technologies". www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7F...

Such an original, timely and important paper. Congratulations! And apart from the great science, it is a wonderful example of turning adversity into an opportunity to make the world better. Two of the authors themselves have personal experience that motivates the research question.

Announcing the featured speakers for the 2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit! #APSGlobal www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/... The APS Global Summit will take place virtually October 21-23, 2025. Stay tuned for more info about submissions, coming SOON.

New paper Mutual benefits of social learning and algorithmic mediation for cumulative culture In this pure modeling paper, we attempt to explore how recommendation algorithms might alter the dynamics of social learning and cumulative cultural evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New pre-print Dynamics of Algorithmic Content Amplification on TikTok with Fabian Baumann, Nipun Arora, and Agnieszka Czaplicka arxiv.org/abs/2503.20231

It was an honor to give this talk at Fundación Innovación Bankinter, covering a decade of research from my lab at @medialab.bsky.social & @mpib-berlin.bsky.social. I give highlights of my team's work on Machine Behavior, Machine Culture, and AI Ethics. youtu.be/a4CFJZl7bqw?...

📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify! Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke. voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

In case you missed it: in a recent webinar💻 @iyadrahwan.bsky.social shared his insight on how #AI can influence human morality. This was part of a series on AI organised in partnership with @ukevaluation.bsky.social & @thesra.bsky.social Watch the recording now to catch up📽️ ➡️ https://buff.ly/42I1upD

Machine culture: @iyadrahwan.bsky.social talks about AI And cultural evolution for a @cudanlab.bsky.social keynote. Nice summary of recent research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqHI...

Did you miss our webinar in partnership with @ukevaluation.bsky.social & @thesra.bsky.social where @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, explored how #AI can influence human morality? Catch up on the recording on our website📽️➡️ https://buff.ly/42I1upD

Why We Need A New, Algorithmic Social Contract A talk that I gave 7 years ago seems more relevant today than when I actually gave it. So I'm reposting it here. In it, I introduce the concept of "society in-the-loop" AI. youtu.be/7xqSx91RV-o?...

1️⃣ day to go until @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director of Max Planck Institute for Human Development, explores how #AI can influence human morality in our free webinar💻 in partnership with @ukevaluation.bsky.social & @thesra.bsky.social . Join us at ➡️ https://buff.ly/3DUxwEx

🤖 = ⚛️ x 🎨 Interview (in English) at Der Divan about AI, from a scientific and artistic perspective. youtu.be/9CVTlcNvN24?...