How can we collectively contain the threat of dishonest delegation to AI? Our paper "Whistleblowers can contain the unethical externalities of human–AI delegation" is out in PNAS, with @nckobis.bsky.social , Andrew Samuel, and @jfbonnefon.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My first long form scientific interview in Arabic. Thanks to Samah Altaweel from Deutsche Welle for hosting me. يسعدني جدا أن أشارككم أول مقابلة مطولة علمية لي باللغة العربية... مع الشكر و التقدير للسيدة سماح الطويل من التلفزيون الرسمي الألماني على الحوار الشيق. www.youtube.com/watch?v=562H...

هل تفوّت سوريا ثورة الذكاء الاصطناعي؟ إياد رهوان | سوريا لوين؟

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Machine+Behavior is back! Pls spread the word. 18-19 May Submission 8 Feb Speakers include: Tom Griffiths, Allan Dafoe, Thore Graepel, Laura Weidinger, Kinga Makovi, @baronca.bsky.social, @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, Emilio Calvano, Brian D. Earp, Christopher Summerfield machinebehavior.science

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Welcome to the forefront of behavioral science in the digital age.

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Working my way slowly through the @manymindspod.bsky.social back catalogue. This one with @iyadrahwan.bsky.social is really good on a cultural evolution analysis of machine / digital culture podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

The rise of machine culture

Podcast Episode · Many Minds · 31/10/2024 · 1h 20m

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Lupin spent five episodes mastering disguise and plotting impossible heists at the Louvre. Meanwhile, someone just walked in during daylight and did it.

Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature

People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...

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Can we turn a science fiction thought experiment into an actual experiment? Check out our new @nature.com paper on the "Science Fiction Science" method (summarized by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social below)

Jean-François Bonnefon@jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) + www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) + www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The science fiction science method - Nature

The ‘science fiction science’ method simulates future technologies and collects quantitative data on the attitudes and behaviours of participants in various future scenarios, with the aim of predictin...

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This is the kind of outcome we foretold six years ago in a paper aptly titled Drivers Are Blamed More Than Their Automated Cars When Both Make Mistakes, with @awad.bsky.social @sohandsouza.info @sydneylevine.bsky.social @maxkw.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

Jean-François Bonnefon@jfbonnefon.bsky.social · last yr.

❝Neither the driver of the Tesla sedan nor the Autopilot software braked in time for an intersection. The jury assigned Tesla one-third of the blame and assigned two-thirds to the driver, who was reaching for his cell phone at the time of the crash❞ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants? 15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Henrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples. In this paper, published in in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that. 1/5

How can we improve the #CogSci of values and decision-making? Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc. How? #games + #processDissociation Examples: last-haven.net tinker-tots.net Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...

The team hope that by understanding how people make complex decisions about competing human and non-human priorities, they will be able to inform more ethically grounded decisions. Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv @awad.bsky.social‬

Humans need both housing and wild places | Letters

Letters: A new citizen science project helps us reach ethical decisions around planning and nature, writes Dr Edmond Awad, while Sue Hopkinson wants to redefine nimbyism. Plus a letter from Steve…

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'As the UK considers the future of its planning frameworks, we hope that those making these important decisions, and indeed all of us, will reflect on the values at stake.' Dr Edmond Awad, from the NeuroSec Group led by Professor Ilina Singh at the Department of Psychiatry, writes to the Guardian.

Glad to see that @theguardian.com published my letter on one of the most urgent dilemmas we face today: how to balance housing needs with protecting nature. 📄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Humans need both housing and wild places | Letters

Letters: A new citizen science project helps us reach ethical decisions around planning and nature, writes Dr Edmond Awad, while Sue Hopkinson wants to redefine nimbyism. Plus a letter from Steve Lupt...

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Genetic selection of pre-implantation embryos is happening now and will, increasingly, be possible for more traits. An Oxford University research project is seeking volunteers who will make some hypothetical choices online.

New Citizen Science project explores ethical dilemmas in embryo selection

Researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and the National University of Singapore present a new, interactive study: Tinker Tots: A Citizen Science Project to Explore Ethical Dile...

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Explore our new research platform, Last Haven — a gamified experience where you make tough choices between protecting endangered species' habitats and advancing human needs. 👉 last-haven.net

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · last yr.

🌎A rare habitat or a vital hospital? New citizen science project #LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs? 👉 Take part: last-haven.net #CitizenScience #LastHaven

Tigers, snakes, plants - what if their last habitat stood in the way of a hospital? #LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs? Take part in this citizen science project today. Learn more:https://last-haven.net #PhilosophyMatters

Always a pleasant surprise to see the #MoralMachine make an appearance in the wild now and then. (Last week's Cambridge Disinformation Summit talk by Fabio Motoki) @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @awad.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social

Recently, we launched Tinker Tots (tinker-tots.net) — a platform where people can reflect on how they make decisions based on embryo attributes. Coincidentally, the @nytimes.com published a 3-part series on polygenic embryo screening the same day 🔗 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1/7

Come hear about moral psychology and AI at 11am today at #SPSP2025! @awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger

Jim AC Everett@jimaceverett.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking forward to our session tomorrow at #SPSP2025 at the intersection of AI and moral psychology. Be there Saturday at 11am in the Four Seasons Ballroom!

Summer Visiting Scholars at Bell Labs Cambridge Apply by by March 10th

🚨 Now accepting commentary proposals!! 🚨Thrilled to share that our paper --- "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" --- was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!

Help! Is there any equivalent feature to Bookmarks on @bsky.app ? I found posts about interesting papers that I want to save to my hard disk later and probably never read in the future.

First post here! In order to put Bluesky @bsky.app app in my first Home Screen for quick access I had to move out an app that i haven’t been using at all lately. That app was Dark Sky.