What if your best friend was an #AI? What about your favorite teacher or long-term romantic partner? What would that be like? I had a great time giving a talk on the 'Ethics of Human-AI Relationships' as part of Bitesize Ethics 2025 (@uehiro.ox.ac.uk). 📺 Full talk here: shorturl.at/WbUOs

Tomorrow @mgreinecke.bsky.social ‬continues our Bitesize Ethics summer programme with 'The Ethics of Human-AI Relationships'. Join us to explore the psychological and ethical nuances in our relationships with machines. www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth... #PhilosophyMatters #ethics

Next week marks the start of @uehiro.ox.ac.uk's 'Bitesize Ethics 2025' --- which, for the first time, has a theme: Ethics in the Age of #AI.

Glad to see that @theguardian.com published my letter on one of the most urgent dilemmas we face today: how to balance housing needs with protecting nature. 📄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Are English-speaking countries more anxious about #AI? 🤖🇬🇧 A new global survey (n > 23,000, 30 countries) suggests that the UK, US, and Australia express higher anxiety about AI than countries across Europe and Southeast Asia, where public trust in AI governance was higher.

🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola

Enjoyed speaking with @aifrontiers.bsky.social about one of my favorite topics: what #AI companions could mean for the human social world. 🤖 Read the full article: www.ai-frontiers.org/articles/ai-... #AIethics

Give our new game a try! last-haven.net

Applications for the Oxford Winter Neuroethics School are closing soon! 🧠🤖 It's going to be an incredible program, so please do join us for a deep dive into #neuroethics, #AI, & more! Apply here ➡️ www.owns.org.uk #OWNS2025

Really excited to hear about this work; come by @uehiro.ox.ac.uk this afternoon if you're able! 🤖 #AI #ethics

I read the print version of this story in the NYT last month, but I listened to its podcast release from the Daily this morning. I think about human-AI relationships a lot, but hearing the pain in this user's voice when she 'loses' her ChatGPT boyfriend... Wow. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/p...

✨ New paper out today! ✨ As AI advances, people may increasingly see "minds" in machines. But what drives this tendency—and what are the consequences? In this work, we look to the #evolution and #developmental psych literatures to consider why people may perceive LLMs as having minds of their own.

What good comes from including psychologists at the 'AI #ethics table'? As a guest on 'Ethical Machines,' I tried to make the case for why understanding human psychology benefits responsible #AI development. Check it out here: www.ethicalmachinespodcast.com/episodes/wha...

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Made it into Bristol late last night... very much looking forward to #AISB2025 today!

What should we make of the ManyBabies 'helper-hinderer' investigation? Take a look at my commentary, published in the Conversation.

And thanks to the folks in the @socphilpsych.bsky.social community for their feedback on this project over the years! I think @byrdnick.com took this photo at SPP 2023. Always one of my favorite conferences.

Is #flourishing just for humans? In a new preprint (led by Joseph Moore), we propose ecological-collective-flourishing (e-co-flourishing): a shift in research + policy that situates human flourishing within the flourishing of non-human species and ecosystems. 🌍🌱 osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm over the moon to announce a new paper from me, @mattiwilks.bsky.social, and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social, out this week (open-access) in Cognition: "Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots" 🤖 (1/7)

Great write-up from Joe Phelan on how children think about the mental lives of voice assistants. (You can even see a quote or two from me towards the end!)

Exciting news--an Expanding Empathy hybrid special event! On April 9, we'll host a conference on empathy and AI through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. Co-sponsored by PSU's Center for Socially Response AI and University Libraries, we'll have psychologists, philosophers, and engineers. 1/n

Fantastic time chatting with Conor and Gabriel on last week's Science Unscripted. We focused on my recent research with @drlarisa.bsky.social as part of a larger conversation regarding the origins of human morality. Thanks for having me! 🧪 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky www.dw.com/en/kids-dont...

1. New paper with Madeline (Gracie) Reinecke now in press at Cognitive Development! We find that kids think God can't change moral rules. Full text here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Summary below: #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc 🧪