This is what it took me until my last year of grad school to realize. I’m still regularly overwhelmed by how much I don’t know, but I no longer suffer from the delusion that everyone else in my position knows 5x more than me.

Sessions for Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2022 have been announced! Convening leading thinkers from a rich variety of fields, this event inspire new insights at the forefront of contemporary #AI research. Learn more: bit.ly/38PDxCK 1/🧵

Looking forward to being a part of and learning from this interdisciplinary community! 🔭💡 Schwartz Reisman Institute

We gave GPT 464 moral scenarios from past papers, and asked it to make moral judgments--they correlated .95 with human ratings Because GPT (almost) perfectly captures human judgment, we wondered: can AI LLMs replace participants in the study of the mind? New at Trends in Cognitive Sciences

🗓️ June 20–22: The Schwartz Reisman Institute’s annual academic conference ABSOLUTELY INTERDISCIPLINARY returns for a wide range of stimulating discussions on how the next phase of AI development will transform our world. Learn more and register: uoft.me/9f3

And that’s a wrap! From Schwartz Reisman Institute’s workshop on the Limits of AI, to Jim AC Everett 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈’s mind-boggling conference on the Moral Psych of AI, to easp2023krk in charming Krakow, conference season has me feeling humbled, inspired, & gassed for the Future 🌪️💡🫶

Delighted to announce our new (open-access!) CogSci Society paper, raising a puzzle within cognitive science: How can we best evaluate the moral cognition of artificial agents? (1/7) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

In this piece, I review Wil Cunningham and Joel Z Leibo's talk on the use of reinforcement learning models to study social cognition. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/cVyZCw_mbes

Congrats team! 🥳 #CHI2024

New Paper!! Led by the inspiring & amazing Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, with Felix Cheung Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage nature.com/articles/s4427… /1

1. What are the ethical and societal implications of advanced AI assistants? What might change in a world with more agentic AI? Our new paper explores these questions: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media… It’s the result of a one year research collaboration involving 50+ researchers… a🧵

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The ACM #CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is underway in Honolulu! Lots of SRI researchers presenting work, incl. Ishtiaque Ahmed, Reem Ayad | ريم عياد, Taneea S Agrawaal, Sharon Ferguson, Michael Inzlicht, & more. Check out a paper by SRI's @kellymcconvey & Shion below.⬇️