📣 I am hiring a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 📍 Berlin 📅 3-year position 💡 Ideal for researchers with a PhD in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Applied Math, Physics, etc. and a strong background in AI, RL, and computational social science. Details below

Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Reinforcement Learning and Human-AI Hybrid Systems - Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung

The Center for Humans and Machines (CHM) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin conducts interdisciplinary science to understand, anticipate, and shape major disruptions from A...

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Can we harness evolutionary thinking to evolve aligned AI? Check out my interview with David Sloan Wilson as part of his 'Evolving Alignment' podcast. youtu.be/elkgRGoQLsk?...

Evolving Alignment with Iyad Rahwan and David Sloan Wilson

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Sharing our latest endeavour here. How reproducible is your paper? @philipjakobbln.bsky.social and I built rigor.me to ease the burden of computational reproducibility. If you provide a paper, data and code, we execute it and tell you what works (and what fails). Beta is available now: rigor.me

RigorLabs@rigorlabs.bsky.social · last mo.

AUTOMATING COMPUTATIONAL REPRODUCIBILITY My colleague @philipjakobbln.bsky.social and I are currently engaged in a research project where we reproduce scientific results en masse. To that end, we built rigor.me, a platform for automatically reproducing papers using agents 🧵

Our paper "Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research" is now officially published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to our team members Raluca Rilla, Tobias Werner, Hiromu Yakura, Anne-Marie Nussberger www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research - Nature Communications

Online behavioural research faces a growing methodological and epistemic threat as participants increasingly rely on large language models: LLM Pollution. Amid accumulating empirical evidence of conta...

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🤖 Behind every machine and chatbot is a moral psychology — datasets and information that drive the decisions they make for us. Trouble is, we don’t quite yet understand it. @timvernimmen.bsky.social talks to computer scientist @iyadrahwan.bsky.social about the moral dilemmas AI may soon be facing.

How will AI make moral decisions for you and me?

There’s an urgent need to study how artificial intelligence makes ethical choices because it soon will make many such decisions in our stead, says computer scientist Iyad Rahwan

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LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

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AI can now scan papers, generate hypotheses, and even help discover drugs—but still relies on something human: judgment, curiosity, and making sense of messy results. The future isn’t AI replacing scientists—it’s amplifying them. Read more in @nature.com's editorial: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why AI cannot do good science without humans

With the arrival of ‘AI scientists’, it’s as well to remember that human wisdom, empathy and sheer messiness are as much part of progress as are process and efficiency.

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Science often requires hard work and long hours, but a key joy is that this often provides the opportunity for the psychological state of flow -- where time stands still and you are totally absorbed by the work you do. New #FLOS vlog, our third in a six-part series on WORKING HARD.

Working Hard [III]: Flow

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Now out in @tandfresearch.bsky.social International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction: "Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimental Evidence Comparing Laypeople and Professional Artists" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 50 pro artists vs randos vs AI agent used image generators to do art:

Can AI replace artists? Check out our latest study comparing lay persons vs trained artists using AI tools.

Thomas F. Eisenmann@thomasfmueller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper published with @andreskarjus.bsky.social as shared 1st author: We show experimentally that professional artists' skill set can transfer to making images with generative AI; tested with artists, laypeople, and GPT-4o copying an image or creatively diverging from it, only by prompting.

Tom Griffiths giving the closing talk at Machine+Behavior. An insightful end to a rich and interesting scientific discussion over the past two days.

Kicking off day 2 of Machine+Behavior: @tahayasseri.bsky.social moderating a discussion with speakers Kinga Makovi and Eric Schulz.

Kicking off the Machine+Behavior conference in Berlin today with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social , @azimshariff.bsky.social and 225 participants. Check out the program: machinebehavior.science

Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!

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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It was a great honor to speak at such an interesting and creative community.

Prof. Gillian Brown@gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excellent talk on machine-human interactions, cooperation and learning by @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, presented at @ehbea2026.bsky.social. #ehbea2026 #culturalevolution

Können wir die gesellschaftlichen Folgen neuer Technologien erforschen, bevor sie existieren?🤔Genau das will "Science-Fiction-Science“! Was dahinter steckt – & was das "Collingridge-Dilemma" damit zu tun hat – erklärt Euch Doktor Whatson im Video. @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

Zeitreise im Labor: Science-Fiction-Science | Wissen Was mit @DoktorWhatson

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It was a pleasure to speak in Madrid last week at Aspen Institute España and Fundación Telefónica about "Science Fiction Science". Here's the full talk + discussion with David Alayón and others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBLL...

TECH & SOCIETY. IYAD RAHWAN - English

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Check out the latest article "How Science Fiction Can Save Us" by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, and @azimshariff.bsky.social. 📝 It’s a deep dive into their paper published last year in Nature, 'The science fiction science method' : 👉 nautil.us/how-science-...

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

How Science Fiction Can Save Us: Three scientists share their bold vision for turning stories into testable experiments

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AI, Gods, and Selves My favorite philosophy YouTube channels takes on a deep and interesting question: is AI a real agent? Or just an illusion of agency created by our culture? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X1C...

AI, Gods, and Selves: Incredibly Effective Illusions

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As a companion piece to our 'Science Fiction Science Method' article, we explore in Nautilus how we could turn a Ted Chiang story into a behavioral experiment @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

How Science Fiction Can Save Us: Three scientists share their bold vision for turning stories into testable experiments

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🚀Introducing 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐋𝐋𝐌: A reporting checklist for using LLMs in behavioral & social science ✅GUIDE-LLM is a reporting checklist designed by 80+ experts to improve transparency, reproducibility & ethical accountability of LLM-based research 📄 llm-checklist.com

New paper: “𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲” Agent-based models of social order work better when agents act by predictive pattern completion from prefix (culture/context) to suffix (action) than when they act through expected value maximization

Check out our new paper. Free preprint link in the next post.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition By Samuel Johnson @amirhkarimi.bsky.social @yoshuabengio.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @sydneylevine.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @igi.bsky.social and more tinyurl.com/36yc6ant

New OA research in American Psychologist explores how and why concerns about #AI in occupational settings vary across cultures, helping designers and policymakers make informed decisions about future developments: https://bit.ly/4cXgPYn @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

How to build wise AI? Honored to be part of this paper.

Igor Grossmann, PhD@igi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/3 AI is getting smarter, but is it getting wiser? 🤔 Thrilled to share our new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social paper on building wise machines, co-authored with Sam Johnson, @amirhkarimi.bsky.social, @yoshuabengio.bsky.social , @sydneylevine.bsky.social , @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, & more!

#Wilmasreview ❄️ Wilma isn't looking for a new home in the snow — but she is wondering: should AI decide who gets welfare benefits like housing support? A new study by Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social looked at exactly this. 1/🧵

Moltbook, the AI social network, is a fascinating phenomenon. Those interested in studying these kinds of systems may find our 2019 (!) Nature paper on 'Machine Behavior' useful. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine behaviour - Nature

Understanding the behaviour of the machines powered by artificial intelligence that increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions is essential to our ability to contro...

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Machine+Behavior conference abstract submissions are coming in! - Submission is still open until: 8 February. - Conference: 18-19 May Join our stellar invited speakers from diverse fields including Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Economics, Philosophy, Physics, etc. machinebehavior.science

Machine+Behavior Conference

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

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Interested in synthetic participants / LLM-based behavioral clones? Consider submitting to this (also alongside the 'Machine Behavior' conference).

Levin Brinkmann@levinbrinkmann.bsky.social · 6mo ago

DEADLINE EXTENSION Workshop on Behavioral Clones @ Machine+Behavior Join us in Berlin on 🗓Fri, 20 May 2026! Submission Deadline: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 machinebehavior.science/behavioral-c...