Celeste Kidd
@celestekidd.bsky.social
Professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Studies how people form beliefs, why the beliefs are sometimes flawed, & how new tech impacts those beliefs.
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Conversations with builders and thinkers on AI's technical and societal futures. Click to read Generally Intelligent, by Imbue, a Substack publication. Launched 21 days ago.
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Children can solve a difficult sorting task by spontaneously discovering efficient sorting algorithms. Older children outperform younger children, showing developmental growth in strategy use and problem-solving. @hw-yang.bsky.social @celestekidd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Children spontaneously discover efficient solutions to a difficult sorting task - Nature Human Behaviour
Children successfully solved a challenging sorting task by spontaneously discovering efficient sorting strategies, such as selection sort and shaker sort. Older children outperformed younger ones, demonstrating developmental progress in strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
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For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online! datasociety.net/events/chall...
Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power
“I think it’s very important to maintain that refusal is an option.” – Emily M. Bender “AI is not inevitable. AI – as it is constructed right now – is, I think, fundamentally anti-democratic.” – Alex ...
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More stories about AI delusions: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... by @milesklee.bsky.social (about Alexander Taylor's suicide) youtu.be/zKCynxiV_8I?... by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social <-- I disagree with framing here. I think these are personalized cults of 2 (AI and user) not a shared religion
He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
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Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last yr.People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
New paper! When do children trust others and when do they come up with their own ideas? Kids 8+ considered and weighed each person's confidence to decide whether to form new beliefs. With @janengelmann.bsky.social and @celestekidd.bsky.social Free here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Children Use the Relative Confidence of People With Conflicting Perspectives to Form Their Own Beliefs
We provide evidence that children sensibly integrate the judgments of different people who disagree according to their confidence. We asked children (ages 5–10 years, N = 92) to make judgments about ...
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New paper out now asks: Why do we bother remembering *how* we learned something? With @antoniafl.bsky.social, Dilara Keşşafoğlu, Winuss Mohtezebsade, @celestekidd.bsky.social, Aylin Küntay, @janengelmann.bsky.social, and Bahar Köymen dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated. Please read and share! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?
Anti-trans attitudes have existed for years, but organised disinformation campaigns are increasingly driving them
Disinformation exists across all parts of the political spectrum, but it goes far beyond simple lying when it comes to the campaign against the transgender community, says a University of Melbourne ex...
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This AI company is using images of your face without your permission. Check out the full Factually! episode with Kashmir Hill wherever you get podcasts. » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3dE7... » YouTube: youtu.be/XlFj7SFCOZU
A.I. Companies Are Stealing Your Face with Kashmir Hill
Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · 03/19/2025 · 1h
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If you are organising conference/workshop around “harnessing AI to leapfrog/transform Africa into [whatever]’ or about the “opportunities/potentials of AI [insert something that sounds too good to be true]”, then i’m not the right speaker for your event
Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database. 🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
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The science behind why we so often talk past each other without realising is.gd/5EOJiV Great chat with Celeste Kidd 'who studies how we acquire and conceptualise information, form beliefs around those concepts, and make sense of the torrent of information blasting our brains each and every second.'
YANSS 257 – The science behind why we so often talk past each other without realizing it and how it impacts everything from politics to penguins
Is a hotdog a sandwich? Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive science, the odds that your concept of a sandwich …
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Ahead our next broadcast on Alan #Turing and the Limits of Computation, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Sarah Lai Stirland, to explore Turing's legacy with @celestekidd.bsky.social from UC Berkeley and Savannah Thais from Columbia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlL1... #PhilSky #philosophy #AI
Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation: Roving Philosophical Report
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80% generated images were dark-skinned, even though people of color make-up less than half the U.S. prison population. @saraheporter.bsky.social @celestekidd.bsky.social #WSAIQatar #AI #LLM #QCRI #Qatar #Arabic
Here are my slides from at the World Summit AI in Qatar today: drive.google.com/file/d/1_bgG...
Celeste Kidd - How AI distorts human beliefs - World Summit AI Qatar 2024.pdf
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📣: Just updated our "modeling Khan Academy learning" preprint (lead: @paxt0n4.bsky.social)! We're excited about this revision and grateful to our reviewers-- lots of neat new analyses using text embeddings to show how knowledge changes over time + conceptual content. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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We are happy to share our new commentary on why using language inclusively for transgender people is perfectly appropriate biologically, socially, and scientifically. A 🧵 on the commentary by @andyperfors.bsky.social, @spiantado.bsky.social, & me
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this piece is fantastic. @rajiinio.bsky.social delivers the smartest commentary on what we should be focused on when we discuss AI and the future for @theatlantic.bsky.social
Deb Raji@rajiinio.bsky.social · 3y agoNot sure who is on here these days, but I wrote a thing! Even for those determined to look far into the future, it's critically important to engage with what we're seeing now with AI & it's most urgent impacts. Too often, that complex reality is simply ignored! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
New paper from Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, William Agnew, Myra Cheng, Kentrell Owens, Luca Soldaini, & I! The Surveillance AI Pipeline: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084 We unearth how computer vision research powers Surveillance AI through analysis of 3 decades of CV papers from CVPR & downstream patents 1
The Surveillance AI Pipeline
A rapidly growing number of voices have argued that AI research, and computer vision in particular, is closely tied to mass surveillance. Yet the direct path from computer vision research to...
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How do we integrate prior beliefs with new experiences to guide metacognitive self-knowledge? psyarxiv.com/knsb4/ A brief 🧵 on our recent preprint👇, in which we found that this capacity for integrating different sources of uncertainty is highly domain specific. #psychscisky 🧠🤖 🧠🟦
On Bluesky, hashtags work only when connected to a feed. So I made feeds for #CogSci and #DevSci! You can join them with the links below. Please repost, so we can rebuild a nice community over here! #CogSci: bsky.app/profile/did:... #DevSci: bsky.app/profile/did:... And don't forget to pin them :)
Our lab at Carnegie Mellon is recruiting graduate students this year to study the development of the brain and cognition — come watch a brain develop, see how animals learn concepts, or take a canoe ride to see how folks learn across cultures. #PsychSciSky
Francesco's work is some of the most creative and fundamental to dev sci happening right now. If you like baby science and/or very clever experimental paradigms, check him out
Francesco Poli@francescopoli.bsky.social · 3y agoJust moved on here and plan on staying for the long run! I'll post about learning and exploration processes and/or cognitive development. Let's follow each other if we work on related fields!
🚨Vacancy for Assistant Professor: AI and Philosophy of Mind and Language Come work with us at Radboud University! www.ru.nl/en/working-a... (please RT for wider reach)
Assistant Professor: AI and Philosophy of Mind and Language | Radboud University
Working as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy here!
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