Representing possible alternatives lies at the heart of moral judgment. As LLMs become embedded in our reasoning processes, they change the set of alternatives we bring to mind. 💭 Our #CogSci2026 paper shows that AI might be making us judge people harsher. ⚖️ osf.io/preprints/ps...

"A framework for blaming willlful ignorance" 🫣 -- New review paper with @rzultan.bsky.social and @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social now out in "Current Opinion in Psychology".

Ro'i Zultan@rzultan.bsky.social · last yr.

People receive more blame for unanticipated consequences of their actions if they could have been informed of said consequences but chose not to. We review possible explanations in our new paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

What makes people judge that someone was forced to take a particular action? Research by @larakirfel.bsky.social et al suggests one influence on this judgment is people’s representation of what an agent knows is possible: buff.ly/Z0oaRNk HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social

🏔️ Brad is lost in the wilderness—but doesn’t know there’s a town nearby. Was he forced to stay put? In our #CogSci2025 paper, we show that judgments of what’s possible—and whether someone had to act—depend on what agents know. 📰 osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ Matt Mandelkern & @jsphillips.bsky.social

New paper for #CogSci2025: People cheat more when they delegate to AI. How can we stop this? We tested: 🧠 Explaining what the AI does (transparency) 🗣️ Calling cheating what it is (framing) Only one worked. w/ @larakirfel.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Raluca Rilla & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Framing, not transparency, reduces cheating in algorithmic delegation: https://osf.io/pqmnx

❗Now out in "AI and Ethics"❗ What are the consequences of AI that can reason counterfactually? Our new paper explores the ethical dimensions of AI-driven counterfactual world simulation. 🌎 🤖 With @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social, Rob MacCoun and Thomas Icard. Link: shorturl.at/bHYEO

Does wilful ignorance—intentionally neglecting to ascertain you’re not implicated in criminal activity—make you culpable? Research by @larakirfel.bsky.social & Hannikainen suggests yes, as long as you suspected that may have been the case: https://buff.ly/3XDopzh HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social

Hi Republica #rp24, come catch me at my talk on all things AI and Ethical Decisions tonight at Lightning Box 1, 7.15pm. #WhoCares re-publica.com/en/node/5223

🗣️ People often select only a few events when explaining what happened. What drives people’s explanation selection? 🗞️ In our new paper, we propose a new model and show that people use explanations to communicate effective interventions. #Cogsci2024 🔗 Link to paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Menschliche Moral und was das für KI bedeutet! Diese Woche wird es mit @larakirfel.bsky.social wieder spannen auf @realscide.bsky.social! #wisskomm #scicomm

Pause @ Real Scientists DE@realscientists.de · 3y ago

[Admin] Wie Menschen über Moral denken und was das mit KI zu tun hat!  Begrüßt unsere neue Kuratorin larakirfel.bsky.social! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2024/02/wie-...