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Worried that there aren't enough Multi-Agent LLM evals? Fear not! Today in a new paper, Aron Vallinder and I take a step in the right direction by studying the Cultural Evolution of Cooperation among LLM Agents.🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2412.10270

Researchers used AI to generate 288 complete academic finance papers predicting stock returns, complete with plausible theoretical frameworks & citations. Each paper looks legit. They did this to show how easy it now is to mass produce "credible" research. Academia isn't ready.

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.

Organizations are WEIRD too. Research on companies is mostly done with Western companies (around 80%). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

📣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🧵

The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics Evolutionary Human Sciences CharlesEfferson and Sonja Vogt | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/42VRzNw

Excited to have this writeup published on Google AI summarizing a long & fruitful line of research our team & collaborators have been working on for ~4 yrs. For me, this journey started when Mark Díaz & I started working on this w/ Aida Davani as her intern project back in 2021!

The work featured in this blog was dismantled limb from limb in two peer-reviewed pieces Michael Muthukrishna Robin Schimmelpfennig Steven Heine

Psychologists often draw their 'theories' from their intuitions, schooled by their personal experiences. In this new manuscript, led by Mohammad Atari, we argue that this reliance has led to a field built around WEIRD Questions.

Today we introduce an AI co-scientist system, designed to go beyond deep research tools to aid scientists in generating novel hypotheses & research strategies. Learn more, including how to join the Trusted Tester Program, at goo.gle/417wJrA

OpenAI has launched Operator, an agent that can perform tasks in your browser. I asked it to complete a Qualtrics survey I created. The results are very promising for Operator but *very* concerning for survey researchers

New PNAS paper (Great work Ivan Kroupin): The cultural construction of executive function. By comparing cognitive development in diverse communities, with & without schools, we find different cognitive developmental trajectories. Michael Muthukrishna pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Every child in this picture is now dead.