Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. I study cognition, language and norms (both in human/human and human/AI interaction).
Graz
Joined April 2009
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We received funding (>1Mio EUR) for a three-year project on Norms of Assertion in Linguistic Human-AI Interaction (NIHAI): talkingtobots.net
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The journal Cognition – arguably the top journal in cognitive science – has published *ninety-nine* experimental philosophy papers
Clearly, experimental philosophy is now very well integrated into the broader field of cognitive science
Ever wondered which journals have published the most x-phi over the last 25 years? Wonder no more! @rodrigodiazxphi and Max Bauer have scraped a bunch of PhilPapers data to find out the answer. See link 👇for our full blogpost xphi.net/2026/06/12/what-jou…
Is happiness a morally charged concept? Ceteris paribus, is the saint happier than the sinner? Diverging from the great work by @phillipsjs and @xphilosopher, @DanHaybron and I find that morality plays no role in the concept of happiness. OA in AJP: h1.nu/1r82v
Does monitoring AI systems ensure accountability? Does tracking and tracing guarantee meaningful human control? Our results show, inter alia, that the faith vested in the “human in the loop” / “on the loop” distinction is seriously exaggerated. Preprint: shorturl.at/qAtcN
What is the folk concept of FAKE NEWS? M. Kürthy & I ran some studies (N=1200), showing falsity and source deception (posturing as a reliable newspaper) increase fake-news classifications. Conservatism also plays a role. Preprint: bit.ly/4sLTe1J
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researchers at Max Planck analyzed 280,000 transcripts of academic talks and presentations from YouTube
they found that humans are increasingly using ChatGPT's favorite words in their spoken language. not in writing. in speech.
"delve" usage up 48%. "adept" up 51%. and 58% of these usages showed no signs of reading from a script.
we talk about model collapse when AI trains on AI output. this is model collapse, except the model is us.
New preprint: We tested 8 open-source LLMs for outcome bias in legal judgment. Unlike humans and older commercial models, they show little to no bias—but differ in baseline severity. Promising for AI-assisted debiasing, with caveats. Link: rb.gy/uyakoj
Joint work with Lucien Baumgartner. , Builds on the excellent paper by Almeida, Nunes, Engelmann and @AlexWiegmann1 (2024), which can be found here: rb.gy/460fd2
How to measure appropriate/calibrated trust in AI? To what extent does trust vested in AI vary across domains? And do people hold AI morally responsible? Our large study (N=1276) provides all the answers and great jokes: shorturl.at/7qVut #x-phi, #AI-ethics
Delighted to give the keynote at the conference of the Society for Philosophy of AI (#PhAI) in Amsterdam this Thursday (Oct. 23). Very much looking forward - if in Amsterdam, come hang.
Program here: lnkd.in/eDusRyUK
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We (@paul_henne, Kevin O'Neill and I) have a new short paper out on causal judgment and time, see Paul's thread.
My favorite part: this plot showing that recent events are less 'stable' in people's minds, i.e. more likely to be replaced by counterfactual alternatives:
Sure thing! In a really nice article, Thanawala and Erb, investigated some features of double-prevention scenarios. (1/13)
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Yale Philosophy offers a course on “Formal Philosophical Methods” — a broad introduction to probability, logic, formal semantics, etc.
Instructor Calum McNamara has now made all materials for the course (78 pages) freely available
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Our paper on the logic of guesses is now out (w/ @NeilBramley and Chris Lucas).
We provide a new information-theoretic perspective on many phenomena (old and new) in judgment under uncertainty.
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We had a delightful conference on AI Assertion at the IDea_Lab Graz (Austria) a few days ago. Great keynotes by Saskia Nagel, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Bertram Malle, Mark Alfano and Edouard Machery. Very interesting contributed talks. Thanks to everyone who joined!
New paper for @FAccTConference '25: Should #AI & humans sometimes realize different values / pursue different actions in the same situation? We find they should, call this phenomenon “value forks” and discuss its implications for #alignment & #AIethics.
shorturl.at/qoGgy
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And our paper (with @AlexWiegmann1) is already out now in Philosophical Psychology (@JournalPHP )🥳!
The link is below👇
🚨Preprint Alert 🚨
Excited to share that my first first-author paper from my PhD has been accepted in Philosophical Psychology(@JournalPHP) (co-authored by my co-supervisor Alex Wiegmann(@AlexWiegmann1 )). Short thread 🧵with link to preprint
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🔥Exciting news in Experimental Philosophy🔥
Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”.
It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles.
Editors and Editorial Board below...
Deadline May 18:
Call for papers for a CONFERENCE on Assertion and Chatbots/LLMs @ Graz University in June. Keynotes: M. Alfano, JF. Bonnefon, O. Deroy, E. Machery, B. Malle, S. Nagel.
philevents.org/event/show/13…
Call for papers for a CONFERENCE on Assertion and Chatbots/LLMs @ Graz University in June.
Keynotes: M. Alfano, JF. Bonnefon, O. Deroy, E. Machery, B. Malle, S. Nagel.
Abstract deadline May 18.
philevents.org/event/show/13…
