Danica Dillion
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Danica Dillion
@danicajdillion.bsky.social
Postdoc @csh.ac.at‬ studying how social and technological change reshapes our beliefs. morality, AI, religion, politics, social networks. danicadillion.com
A person and a puppy are drowning in a lake. You can only save one—who do you choose? 1 in 5 dog owners would choose the puppy.

Are our relationships with our fur babies getting in the way of those with people?

New post (🔗 below 👇)
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🌍 Introducing WorldValuesBench!

A benchmark to evaluate how well LLMs reflect cultural differences in human values.

Built from 94k+ participants in the World Values Survey → 20M examples of (demographics, value question → answer).

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September 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
1 in 5 dog owners would save a puppy's life over yours. 🐶

The majority of pet owners see their dog as a soulmate. Many don’t just prefer their own dog over people—they’ll pick a stranger’s dog over a human life.

New preprint 🧵
August 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New preprint 🚨

Cognitive bottlenecks make LLMs more morally aligned with people 🧠🤖

We made AI “think” more like people by narrowing its focus to a few key moral cues.

This AI better predicted people’s moral judgments & was more trusted.

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August 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM