Edmond (Eddy) Awad
@awad.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow @UniofOxford. Senior Lecturer @UniofExeter. Associate Research Scientist @Max_Planck_CHM. Formerly @MIT @medialab. Moral Machine. Syrian.
Lupin spent five episodes mastering disguise and plotting impossible heists at the Louvre. Meanwhile, someone just walked in during daylight and did it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Lupin spent five episodes mastering disguise and plotting impossible heists at the Louvre. Meanwhile, someone just walked in during daylight and did it.
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Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature
People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Can we turn a science fiction thought experiment into an actual experiment?
Check out our new @nature.com paper on the "Science Fiction Science" method (summarized by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social below)
Check out our new @nature.com paper on the "Science Fiction Science" method (summarized by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social below)
We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) +
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The science fiction science method - Nature
The ‘science fiction science’ method simulates future technologies and collects quantitative data on the attitudes and behaviours of participants in various future scenarios, with the aim of predictin...
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Can we turn a science fiction thought experiment into an actual experiment?
Check out our new @nature.com paper on the "Science Fiction Science" method (summarized by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social below)
Check out our new @nature.com paper on the "Science Fiction Science" method (summarized by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social below)
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We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) +
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The science fiction science method - Nature
The ‘science fiction science’ method simulates future technologies and collects quantitative data on the attitudes and behaviours of participants in various future scenarios, with the aim of predictin...
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) +
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is the kind of outcome we foretold six years ago in a paper aptly titled Drivers Are Blamed More Than Their Automated Cars When Both Make Mistakes, with @awad.bsky.social @sohandsouza.info @sydneylevine.bsky.social @maxkw.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
❝Neither the driver of the Tesla sedan nor the Autopilot software braked in time for an intersection. The jury assigned Tesla one-third of the blame and assigned two-thirds to the driver, who was reaching for his cell phone at the time of the crash❞ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Tesla hit with $243 million in damages after jury finds its Autopilot feature contributed to fatal crash
The verdict follows a three-week trial that threw a spotlight on how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have marketed their driver-assistance software.
www.nbcnews.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is the kind of outcome we foretold six years ago in a paper aptly titled Drivers Are Blamed More Than Their Automated Cars When Both Make Mistakes, with @awad.bsky.social @sohandsouza.info @sydneylevine.bsky.social @maxkw.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants?
15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Henrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples.
In this paper, published in in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that. 1/5
15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Henrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples.
In this paper, published in in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that. 1/5
July 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants?
15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Henrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples.
In this paper, published in in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that. 1/5
15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Henrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples.
In this paper, published in in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that. 1/5
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How can we improve the #CogSci of values and decision-making?
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
How can we improve the #CogSci of values and decision-making?
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
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The team hope that by understanding how people make complex decisions about competing human and non-human priorities, they will be able to inform more ethically grounded decisions.
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
Humans need both housing and wild places | Letters
Letters: A new citizen science project helps us reach ethical decisions around planning and nature, writes Dr Edmond Awad, while Sue Hopkinson wants to redefine nimbyism. Plus a letter from Steve…
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The team hope that by understanding how people make complex decisions about competing human and non-human priorities, they will be able to inform more ethically grounded decisions.
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
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'As the UK considers the future of its planning frameworks, we hope that those making these important decisions, and indeed all of us, will reflect on the values at stake.'
Dr Edmond Awad, from the NeuroSec Group led by Professor Ilina Singh at the Department of Psychiatry, writes to the Guardian.
Dr Edmond Awad, from the NeuroSec Group led by Professor Ilina Singh at the Department of Psychiatry, writes to the Guardian.
June 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
'As the UK considers the future of its planning frameworks, we hope that those making these important decisions, and indeed all of us, will reflect on the values at stake.'
Dr Edmond Awad, from the NeuroSec Group led by Professor Ilina Singh at the Department of Psychiatry, writes to the Guardian.
Dr Edmond Awad, from the NeuroSec Group led by Professor Ilina Singh at the Department of Psychiatry, writes to the Guardian.
Glad to see that @theguardian.com published my letter on one of the most urgent dilemmas we face today: how to balance housing needs with protecting nature.
📄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
📄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Humans need both housing and wild places | Letters
Letters: A new citizen science project helps us reach ethical decisions around planning and nature, writes Dr Edmond Awad, while Sue Hopkinson wants to redefine nimbyism. Plus a letter from Steve Lupt...
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Glad to see that @theguardian.com published my letter on one of the most urgent dilemmas we face today: how to balance housing needs with protecting nature.
📄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
📄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Genetic selection of pre-implantation embryos is happening now and will, increasingly, be possible for more traits. An Oxford University research project is seeking volunteers who will make some hypothetical choices online.
New Citizen Science project explores ethical dilemmas in embryo selection
Researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and the National University of Singapore present a new, interactive study: Tinker Tots: A Citizen Science Project to Explore Ethical Dile...
www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Genetic selection of pre-implantation embryos is happening now and will, increasingly, be possible for more traits. An Oxford University research project is seeking volunteers who will make some hypothetical choices online.
Explore our new research platform, Last Haven — a gamified experience where you make tough choices between protecting endangered species' habitats and advancing human needs.
👉 last-haven.net
👉 last-haven.net
May 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Explore our new research platform, Last Haven — a gamified experience where you make tough choices between protecting endangered species' habitats and advancing human needs.
👉 last-haven.net
👉 last-haven.net
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Tigers, snakes, plants - what if their last habitat stood in the way of a hospital?
#LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs?
Take part in this citizen science project today.
Learn more:https://last-haven.net
#PhilosophyMatters
#LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs?
Take part in this citizen science project today.
Learn more:https://last-haven.net
#PhilosophyMatters
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Tigers, snakes, plants - what if their last habitat stood in the way of a hospital?
#LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs?
Take part in this citizen science project today.
Learn more:https://last-haven.net
#PhilosophyMatters
#LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs?
Take part in this citizen science project today.
Learn more:https://last-haven.net
#PhilosophyMatters
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Always a pleasant surprise to see the #MoralMachine make an appearance in the wild now and then.
(Last week's Cambridge Disinformation Summit talk by Fabio Motoki)
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @awad.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social
(Last week's Cambridge Disinformation Summit talk by Fabio Motoki)
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @awad.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Always a pleasant surprise to see the #MoralMachine make an appearance in the wild now and then.
(Last week's Cambridge Disinformation Summit talk by Fabio Motoki)
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @awad.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social
(Last week's Cambridge Disinformation Summit talk by Fabio Motoki)
@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @awad.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @azimshariff.bsky.social
Recently, we launched Tinker Tots (tinker-tots.net) — a platform where people can reflect on how they make decisions based on embryo attributes.
Coincidentally, the @nytimes.com published a 3-part series on polygenic embryo screening the same day
🔗
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
1/7
Coincidentally, the @nytimes.com published a 3-part series on polygenic embryo screening the same day
🔗
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
1/7
Tinker Tots
tinker-tots.net
April 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Recently, we launched Tinker Tots (tinker-tots.net) — a platform where people can reflect on how they make decisions based on embryo attributes.
Coincidentally, the @nytimes.com published a 3-part series on polygenic embryo screening the same day
🔗
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
1/7
Coincidentally, the @nytimes.com published a 3-part series on polygenic embryo screening the same day
🔗
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
1/7
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Come hear about moral psychology and AI at 11am today at #SPSP2025!
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
Looking forward to our session tomorrow at #SPSP2025 at the intersection of AI and moral psychology. Be there Saturday at 11am in the Four Seasons Ballroom!
February 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Come hear about moral psychology and AI at 11am today at #SPSP2025!
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
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Summer Visiting Scholars at Bell Labs Cambridge
Apply by by March 10th
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February 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Summer Visiting Scholars at Bell Labs Cambridge
Apply by by March 10th
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🚨 Now accepting commentary proposals!! 🚨Thrilled to share that our paper --- "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" --- was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!
February 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🚨 Now accepting commentary proposals!! 🚨Thrilled to share that our paper --- "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" --- was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!
Help! Is there any equivalent feature to Bookmarks on @bsky.app ? I found posts about interesting papers that I want to save to my hard disk later and probably never read in the future.
November 12, 2023 at 12:26 PM
Help! Is there any equivalent feature to Bookmarks on @bsky.app ? I found posts about interesting papers that I want to save to my hard disk later and probably never read in the future.
First post here! In order to put Bluesky @bsky.app app in my first Home Screen for quick access I had to move out an app that i haven’t been using at all lately. That app was Dark Sky.
November 12, 2023 at 12:21 PM
First post here! In order to put Bluesky @bsky.app app in my first Home Screen for quick access I had to move out an app that i haven’t been using at all lately. That app was Dark Sky.