The Historical Psychology preconference at Society for Personality and Social Psychology is back! See you in Denver! (and send us your abstracts) Stay tuned for the (amazing) lineup of speakers! w/ Joshua Conrad Jackson & Ashwini Ashokkumar

We’ll be presenting our paper on historical text analysis in classical Chinese at #EMNLP2024 (the Main Conference). All credit to Yuqi Chen preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2403.00509

The Historical Psychology Pre-conference Society for Personality and Social Psychology is up! We have a fantastic lineup! Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations. Send your abstracts & C U in Denver! W/ Ashwini Ashokkumar

📣 I'll be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025. Take a look at the lab website and the FAQ for prospective students: piraylab.com/join Feel free to reach out if you have questions.

How do we anticipate and prepare for the impacts of anthropomorphic AI on users and society? We explore this question in our paper, now out in AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) #aies2024: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES…

Are you interested in exploring questions at the ethical frontier of AI research? If so, then take a look at this new opening in the humanity, ethics and alignment research team: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… HEART conducts interdisciplinary research to advance safe & beneficial AI.

🥳We are excited to share that WOAH 2025, our 9th edition, will take place at #ACL2025 in Vienna! ACL 2025 Our special theme this year will be "Harms Beyond Hate Speech". CfP and more details soon 🚀

📣New preprint!📣We’ve long known humans tend to anthropomorphize computers. But with the rise of social AI applications, like AI companions, studying this is now more crucial than ever. We introduce a new method for *empirically evaluating* anthropomorphic behaviors in LLMs🧵

🧿New Preprint🧿 We argue for diversifying conceptual diversity, i.e., studying topics that are not well represented in our knowledge base. Topical diversity is related to, but distinguishable from, participant and researcher diversity. Some examples:

I am hiring a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind for 2025! 👩🔬 Interested in improving multi-turn optimization and reasoning capabilities of LLMs? 🧑‍🎓 Currently studying for a Bachelor's/Master's/PhD? 🧑‍💻 Have solid engineering and research skills? 🌟We want to hear from you!

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Thanks to my mentors, collaborators, and students. Joe Henrich Morteza Dehghani Daphna Oyserman Jonathan Schulz Jonathan Haidt Culture and Morality Lab