The new Princeton AI Lab has positions for AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows for three research initiatives: AI for Accelerating Invention, Natural and Artificial Minds, and Princeton Language and Intelligence. More information here: ai.princeton.edu/ai-lab/employm…

💥"The idea that thinking and reasoning are not the sole provenance of individual cognitive agents but rather are social certainly seems to be in the air... We may have been all too willing to interpret the behavior we observe as evidence of irrationality" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/to…

We updated this preprint (osf.io/preprints/psya…) with a new study investigating sources of this yes-no framing bias and amplified omission bias in LLM moral decision-making. Results suggest that they likely arise from fine-tuning for chatbot applications. Maximilian Maier 🔍 Falk Lieder

Too true!

A fantastic job available at the UCL ICN at either associate professor or professor grade. Contact me if you have any questions or would like to chat about the job! Link in first reply.

We are happy to have Dr Greta Mohr from University College London give our upcoming talk! All welcome. For more details, visit our website. #CausalReasoning #LJDM25

I understand that CI, from the 1970s until around 2010, was mostly focused on the challenge of moving from OBS to EXP worlds and controlling for confounding in this sense. However, it's an oversimplification to think about CI as solely about observational studies, as the

Hi Nando de Freitas , one surprising result from CI in the last decade is that counterfactuals (level 3) of Pearl's Hierarchy can be used for decision-making and can lead to dominant strategies over essentially any available RL strategy (level 2), as discussed in Sec 7 (p. 114) in

Suppose Person A orders Person B to do something harmful, and Person B complies. Who is then seen as more of a cause of the harm - Person A or Person B? Intriguing new research from Vanessa Cheung and David Lagnado osf.io/preprints/psya…

In the latest Science, Henry Farrell, Cosma Shailizi, James Evans and I make the case for LLM's as powerful, transformative cultural and social technologies, ways for people to learn from other people, rather than intelligent agents. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

❗ CLOSING THIS WEEK – Reminder that applications for this BR-UK role at University College London closes this weekend. Find out more via the link below:

Interested in applying #BehaviouralScience to your organisation? Join us in an online Q&A, 10th April nour zohbi, and find out how you can work with UCL’s brilliant Masters’ students on pressing questions. To register: buff.ly/2PZeHaC

Our CI readers should be excited to know about this symposium on Causal Reinforcement Learning: sites.google.com/uci.edu/mwdc20… RLC-2025: August 5th to 8th, 2025, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.

While we await its inevitable rejection without review Prof Norman Fenton Prof Martin Neil David Lagnado & I have released the preprint of the first in what will be a couple of papers using causal Bayesian analysis on aspects from the Letby trial dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.…

Excited to be joining this workshop!

Excellent article from David Conn in the guardian- take note BBC News (UK)

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Calling all ECRs! Join us on July 16th at 1pm (BST) for a webinar on the Commissioning Fund. Get details on the application process and ask your questions. Register now!🧠💡 #ResearchFunding #BRUK us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…