• Assistant professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Persuasion, technology, experiments
• benmtappin.com
Ben Tappin
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The synth backing track takes the vibe to an unexpected place 🥲
Closing out the teaching semester this week with one of my favourite topics. Sadly its pedagogy was forever and unforgivably mar'd by the truly worst naming convention of all time...
I wonder how these rates of sycophancy (and their effects) compare against realistic counterfactuals like talking with one’s close friends or spouse.
Why we should rethink causal mediation, and what to do instead? Come to hear the answer from Vanessa Didelez at the next CIIG seminar!
The seminar will be hybrid. If you are in London, come join us in person at UCL! Otherwise, you can join on Zoom as usual. Registration links in comment below.
Important @benmtappin.bsky.social on the need to carefully consider the relevant counterfactual when evaluating AI chatbots (also applies to social media!) benmtappin.substack.com/p/are-ai-cha...
Yes. Then if you push on this the claim becomes “okay it may not cause but it’s still useful because it predicts”. But then it’s like if predictive accuracy was your goal the design and analysis should be different e.g., CV + more predictors. I’ve been fully Westfall & Yarkoni-pilled on this point.
How do you align AI in a world of plural, conflicting, and evolving human values?
A starting point is human society itself.
@sydneylevine.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc at NYU to combine insights from cultural evolution, computational moral cognition, and AI safety.
Please share widely!1/
📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣
The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods.
Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.
University salary from £58,265 - £77,645 per annum which is inclusive of an Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 p.aPermanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during th...
Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>
