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Computing Science prof in multimodal embodied AI, emotion, interaction at SFU in Vancouver 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Director of the Rosie Lab www.rosielab.ca Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Previously at SoftBank Robotics 🤖 FR/JP

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics and information integration during percept formation often distinguish clinical from nonclinical populations. Computational psychiatry can elucidate these variations through two primary approaches: (i) Bayesian modeling, which treats perception as an unconscious inference, and (ii) an active, information-seeking perspective (e.g., reinforcement learning), which frames perceptual switches as internal actions. Our synthesis aims to leverage multistability to bridge these computational psychiatry subfields, linking human and animal studies as well as connecting behavior to underlying neural mechanisms. Perceptual multistability emerges as a promising noninvasive tool for clinical applications, facilitating translational research and enhancing our mechanistic understanding of cognitive processes and their impairments.

- be transparent in terms of their reporting thresholds in crisis situations, such as when a user intends to harm themselves or another person; and - mitigate the risk that the chatbot will engage in harmful behaviour.

AI chatbot services will also be subject to a Duty to Act Responsibly that is specifically tailored to their services. They will be required to: - mitigate the risk of the chatbot communicating harmful content; ...

Congratulations to @nicolecrust.bsky.social, whose book Elusive Cures is a Silver Winner of the Nautilus Book Awards, Science and Cosmology category! This work is bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses. Learn more here: hubs.ly/Q04k-MXW0

Excellent!! Canada announced legislation on AI chatbots: "Social media platforms and AI chatbots are designed to capture attention. They... have become a source of ... a range of other mental health challenges for many young Canadians." www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

New paper out! Some AI companies anthropomorphize their products to boost trust. But does it work? And can anthropomorphism benefit them beyond increased trust? We tested this across two studies. Here's what we found: