It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Excited to share that my recent paper *many llms are more utilitarian than one * has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! 🎉 #NeurIPS Thanks to my amazing collaborators! @razanbaltaji.bsky.social Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814

🧠🤖 Ever wondered about the risks of the increasing customization capabilities of AI/AI-powered chatbots & what we can do about it? Check out our recent-ish paper: The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...

Does ‘discrimination’ inherently imply unfairness, hence making it an evaluative (rather than a descriptive) term? Research by Willemsen et al concludes it is a “thick concept” that fundamentally blends descriptive and evaluative content: buff.ly/DUysv3c HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!

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

We are finalizing the program for the workshop 'Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives' Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal? philevents.org/event/show/1...

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Would you like to contribute to cross-cultural research in bioethics? We have received expressions of interest from over 20 countries, but many world regions remain under-represented. ⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️ www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

🚨Publication Alert🚨 “Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?” 5 years in the making ~ 5000 participants 10 countries 6 languages Forthcoming in American Psychologist With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr. Short thread and preprint below

Great to see this out! I hope platforms like @joinprolific.bsky.social take note, it currently looks like online behavioral research is becoming increasingly infeasible

Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!

Mengchen Dong @iyadrahwan.bsky.social and I report data from 3,000+ people (incl. welfare claimants) showing how much accuracy they're willing to sacrifice to get faster AI decisions for social benefits. it's very hard for non-claimants to understand claimants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If anyone wants to hire me, I am soon to be unemployed and desperately want to run a series of studies exploring how teaching people about the architecture of LLMs changes the way they think and talk about LLMs

I think we are walking into the same traps with AI as we did with social media: information technologies are making new areas and scales available, but they are not neutral but built by people and companies for certain goals and won’t just magically align with democratic values or well-being, … 1/2

Visiting Norrköping for @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 this week? Here's a little unofficial local guide to food, coffee (all within 5mns walk!) & activities—compiled by someone who lives here! (1/6)

I just posted a new pre-print where I argue that dual character concepts are something new and interesting in legal philosophy and beyond and that they can't be reduced to ambiguity, prototypes, or metalinguistic negotiations. Comments are very welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Anyone else presenting virtually at #CogSci2025 who understands the updated presenter guidelines? Do we still need to submit a recorded talk or not? And do we need to upload our slides at all? cognitivesciencesociety.org/presenter-gu...

After lunch, @neeleengelmann.bsky.social addressed why delegation to #AI may encourage #cheating: Factors - Transparency of how much unearned gain an [AI] delegate produces for the user and how it achieves this - Framing: whether dishonest actions are explicitly labeled as such - Their interaction?

📊 🇨🇭 🧵 Today and tomorrow, I'm posting about the talks and posters from the 2025 BioXPhi Summit in #Switzerland. Follow along! The #conference website: ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-ou... The program: ibmb.unibas.ch/fileadmin/us... #bioethics #xPhi #medicine #healthcare #policy #cogSci #psychology #AI

🚨 Call for Proposals: DFG Priority Programme “Rethinking Disinformation (Re:DIS)” (SPP 2573) The DFG invites interdisciplinary research on disinformation from an epistemic perspective. 🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025 📍 Online info roundtable: 27 June 2025, 4–8pm CET www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Wir öffnen unsere Türen zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften! ✨ Vielfältiges Programm für Groß & Klein – kommt vorbei! 📍 Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin (Lentzeallee 94) 📆 28. Juni 2025 💸 Jubiläumstickets online: nur 5 € 🔗 Programm: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2047157/prog...

Fresh in #PNAS: The final paper from my PhD is out! We experimentally study how delegation to artificial agents affects cooperation in a collective-risk dilemma. Read the full paper → doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Do AI builders hold different values from AI users? We show that AI builders and men are more utilitarian and less supportive of pro-diversity outputs, highlighting ongoing concerns about workforce diversity and whose values are shaping AI. tinyurl.com/AIcognit

We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...

YouTube Auto translate doing the classic XKCD ass-car thing, I love it. They even translated it to a closed compound 👌

Ok, time for a short thread about this paper. My sense over the past six months or so is that chain-of-thought prompting as used in e.g. ChatGPT o.3 improves substantially upon previous systems such as ChatGPT 4.o, at least for certain tasks. But how revolutionary is it?

Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech? Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social We are looking for 3 Post Docs in Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Application deadline is June 15, 2025.

starting into the week like.... 🪱

If I'm ever tempted to use Qualtrics for anything else than the simplest of surveys again, I need someone to remind me to shoot myself in the foot instead 👍🙏

Might consent morally transform some human interactions but not others? In our new article in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, @jorgesuarezm.bsky.social, @ivarr.bsky.social, and I explore whether the information consent conveys may be at odds with normative standards in the sexual domain. 🧵

Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Auch nominiert für das beste Forschungsumfeld: humanet3. Das Team forscht zur digitalen #Transformation und ist eine gemeinsame Forschungsgruppe der Max-Planck-Institute @mpil.de, @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social und @mpib-berlin.bsky.social. 📲 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...

Are people more likely to consider a statement a lie if the stakes (or the moral consequences) are higher? Research by Shurakov & Wiegmann suggests this influence is, at most, small, and the folk concept of what is/isn’t a lie is robust: buff.ly/Y4CDrLH

Right now, experimental philosophy papers are usually published either in psych journals or in philosophy journals — but either option involves neglecting half of what makes this research important (All those papers in Cognition have almost no explicit discussion of philosophical implications)

Breaking news: There will soon be a specialist journal devoted to the interdisciplinary field of EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY This will be enormously valuable to the field

🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below. More information coming soon...

We’re back to the “hundreds of psychological studies cannot all be wrong, educate yourself”-stage of discourse. I recommend that onlookers to this discourse pick some of the cited studies & see how compelling they find them, wrt causal identification & strength of statistical evidence.>

The role of stakes in lying: An empirical investigation of the robustness of the folk concept of lying: https://osf.io/f68qj

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

🧵New paper out in Cognition Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)? @danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module. 50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...

Now out @ Journal of Research in Personality (free until June): authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7EqWL4L... We found evidence that trait empathy correlates with purposivism in rule violation judgments. Also: most people share a single concept that seems to have a dual character structure.

Challenging AI-hype with @jimaceverett.bsky.social and charting a more responsible and virtuous course #aiethics

the view at the train station when you're apparently the very last person in your town to leave for the holidays 🛴🛴🛴 happy easter!

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Programming is essential for research in neuroscience and psychology. This Primer introduces ten principles guiding researchers toward writing clear, adaptable, and easily shareable code, supporting reproducible science. @martinhebart.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

@uoelawschool.bsky.social is hiring a Teaching & Research Fellow in AI, Data & the Rule of Law. The post will include: ✨teaching responsibilities @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social ↔️collaboration across @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🤝working closely with our CTMF team! Apply by 2 May ▶️ edin.ac/4ih5dP9

❗Now out in "AI and Ethics"❗ What are the consequences of AI that can reason counterfactually? Our new paper explores the ethical dimensions of AI-driven counterfactual world simulation. 🌎 🤖 With @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social, Rob MacCoun and Thomas Icard. Link: shorturl.at/bHYEO