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neele engelmann
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cognitive scientist. postdoc at center for humans and machines, MPI for human development, Berlin. Interested in moral psychology, human-AI interaction, (experimental) philosophy and other things.

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neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · May 12
New paper for #CogSci2025: People cheat more when they delegate to AI. How can we stop this? We tested:

🧠 Explaining what the AI does (transparency)
🗣️ Calling cheating what it is (framing)

Only one worked.

w/ @larakirfel.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Raluca Rilla & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · May 12
Framing, not transparency, reduces cheating in algorithmic delegation: https://osf.io/pqmnx
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janlause.bsky.social
Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science?

Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
ml4science.bsky.social ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 9d
We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
The Tübingen AI Research Building, where the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" is based: A four-story, beige-colored building with numerous window fronts. In front of it stand four trees with autumn leaves.
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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tfwerner.com
📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social

We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice!

arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence
We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...
arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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alexwiegmann.bsky.social
Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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baklavabaddie.bsky.social
gegenvorschlag :
einfach alles wurst nennen
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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dirkwulff.bsky.social
🚨 New article 🚨

Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap.

Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...
October 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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anneroth.bsky.social
Über Nacht von Null auf 12.000. DA geht noch was.

weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

#Chatkontrolle
Screenshot Anzeige der Unterschriftenzahlen einer Petition, aktuell 11.967
October 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
signal.org Signal @signal.org · Oct 3
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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iyadrahwan.bsky.social
Delighted that our paper on 'Delegation to AI can increase dishonest behaviour' is featured today on the cover of @nature.com
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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mpib-berlin.bsky.social
Automatically disadvantaged? What benefit recipients think about the use of #AI in welfare decisions. A new study @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @tse-fr.eu reveals discrepancies in attitudes between social benefit recipients and non-recipients.

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas...
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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jfbonnefon.bsky.social
It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...
September 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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anitakeshmirian.bsky.social
Excited to share that my recent paper *many llms are more utilitarian than one * has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! 🎉
#NeurIPS

Thanks to my amazing collaborators!
@razanbaltaji.bsky.social

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814
Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
Moral judgment is integral to large language model (LLM) alignment and social reasoning. As multi-agent systems gain prominence, it becomes crucial to understand how LLMs function collectively during ...
arxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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stefanherzog.bsky.social
🧠🤖 Ever wondered about the risks of the increasing customization capabilities of AI/AI-powered chatbots & what we can do about it? Check out our recent-ish paper:

The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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koenfucius.bsky.social
Does ‘discrimination’ inherently imply unfairness, hence making it an evaluative (rather than a descriptive) term?

Research by Willemsen et al concludes it is a “thick concept” that fundamentally blends descriptive and evaluative content:

buff.ly/DUysv3c

HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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alexwiegmann.bsky.social
The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

@xphijournal.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/xphi...

Please share!
Logo of the new Journal "Experimental Philosophy".
September 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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iyadrahwan.bsky.social
Fully funded PhD scholarships at the Max Planck School of Cognition (Deadline Dec 1st)

You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty.

Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
cognition.maxplanckschools.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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hugoviciana.bsky.social
We are finalizing the program for the workshop 'Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives'
Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal?
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives
This focused workshop explores the intersection of empirical research on moral cognition and philosophical theories of social and moral progress. We bring together experimental philosophers and moral ...
philevents.org
September 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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maxplanck.de
The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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ivarr.bsky.social
Would you like to contribute to cross-cultural research in bioethics? We have received expressions of interest from over 20 countries, but many world regions remain under-represented.

⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️
www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/
global-bioXphi | moral science lab
Experimental philosophy research group at the University of Granada, Spain.
www.mscilab.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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alexwiegmann.bsky.social
🚨Publication Alert🚨
“Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?”

5 years in the making
~ 5000 participants
10 countries
6 languages

Forthcoming in American Psychologist
With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr.

Short thread and preprint below
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
neeleengelmann.bsky.social
Great to see this out! I hope platforms like @joinprolific.bsky.social take note, it currently looks like online behavioral research is becoming increasingly infeasible
August 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
neeleengelmann.bsky.social
Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!
Image showing the schedule for a conference session titled **"Talks 21: AI 2"**, chaired by **Judith Sieker**, taking place in **Nob Hill C**. The session includes the following lectures: 1. **“LLMs Struggle to Reject False Presuppositions when Misinformation Stakes are High”** Authors: Judith Sieker, Clara Lachenmaier, Sina Zarrieß **Time:** 01 Aug, 09:00 2. **“Enhancing Objectivity in LLM-as-a-Judge through Perturbation Injection”** Authors: Zhihao Zhu, Haoran Liao, Yaohui Jin **Time:** 01 Aug, 09:22 3. **“Framing, not transparency, reduces cheating in algorithmic delegation”** Authors: Neele Engelmann, Lara Kirfel, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Raluca Rilla, Iyad Rahwan **Time:** 01 Aug, 09:44 4. **“Whose Values Prevail? Bias in Large Language Model Value Alignment”** Authors: Ruoxi Qi, Gleb Papyshev, Kellee Tsai, Antoni Chan, Janet Hsiao **Time:** 01 Aug, 10:06
August 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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jfbonnefon.bsky.social
Mengchen Dong @iyadrahwan.bsky.social and I report data from 3,000+ people (incl. welfare claimants) showing how much accuracy they're willing to sacrifice to get faster AI decisions for social benefits. it's very hard for non-claimants to understand claimants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heterogeneous preferences and asymmetric insights for AI use among welfare claimants and non-claimants - Nature Communications
Governments use AI to speed up welfare decisions, raising concerns about fairness and accuracy. Here, the authors find that welfare claimants are more averse to AI and their preferences less understoo...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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ethanlandes.bsky.social
If anyone wants to hire me, I am soon to be unemployed and desperately want to run a series of studies exploring how teaching people about the architecture of LLMs changes the way they think and talk about LLMs
jfruh.bsky.social Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · Jul 23
i do think people don't realize that gen AI systems are not introspecting to explain their own behavior. they're giving you output based on their training data, which certainly includes information about how they work, but not why they took certain specific actions
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · Jul 20
no it wasn’t and no it didn’t
July 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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lorenzspreen.bsky.social
I think we are walking into the same traps with AI as we did with social media: information technologies are making new areas and scales available, but they are not neutral but built by people and companies for certain goals and won’t just magically align with democratic values or well-being, … 1/2
July 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM