Researchers affiliated with SRI at @utoronto.ca (including @semrasevi.bsky.social, Elliot Creager, Matt Ratto, @zhijingjin.bsky.social, & @minzlicht.bsky.social) are part of 8 new CIFAR projects focused on examining AI Safety through the lens of social sciences & the humanities.
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🚨 New preprint with @dcameron.bsky.social and @minzlicht.bsky.social!
The empathic voice penalty: Vocal delivery reduces perceived empathy in humans and AI osf.io/preprints/ps...
We know AI often outperforms humans at text-based empathy—but what happens when emotional support is expressed vocally?
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Eight projects announced to receive funding for AI safety research.
New guest post by my PhD student @hellovic.bsky.social. She writes about her new working paper finding that most Americans don't oppose AI. But those who do treat it as a moral issue, refusing tradeoffs and even money. Why that makes AI debates so hard.
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@nature.com has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.
My lab posted a paper on AI opposition. Someone threatened me with a guillotine. The replies proved our findings better than the data did. New post!
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There's no other way to say this: PUB DATE! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513...
This week I’m publishing a guest post by my PhD student, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello.
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Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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