Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان
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Can AI replace artists? Check out our latest study comparing lay persons vs trained artists using AI tools.
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.
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...
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:
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:
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان
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...
Nicholas A. Christakis
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...
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان
Andres Karjus
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان
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.
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...
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.
Thomas F. Eisenmann
Generative AI’s novel capacities raise questions about the future role of human expertise: does it level the playing field between professional artists and laypeople, or does expertise enhance AI u...
