The broader point: intractable problems require metacognitive control over object-level strategies.
AI alignment may depend not just on optimizing outputs, but on building systems that can reflect on their own limits, alternatives, and uncertainty. #AIalignment #metacognition
Igor Grossmann, PhD
2/ Grateful for visits with colleagues in Genoa, Milan & Lucca, connecting with the Italian Young Academy, and esp. GabyUmbach's hospitality and our exchanges on strengthening the evidential value of science in policy foresight, & the role of social scientists in the AI age.
"If there is anything that still ails psychology... it is the neglect of investigation of environmental or ecological texture." Brunswik, '57
@bayesandbounds.bsky.social takes that seriously in the new Psychological Inquiry 37:1. Check in out!
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A presto, Firenze. š®š¹ Spent May 2026 as a Visiting Fellow at the @eui-eu.bsky.social Robert Schuman Centre @eui-schuman.bsky.social, during EUI's 50th anniversary. Fiesole's hills, Renaissance Florence, and conversations on science for policy. Still processing it all.
