Next week marks the start of @uehiro.ox.ac.uk's 'Bitesize Ethics 2025' --- which, for the first time, has a theme: Ethics in the Age of #AI.

Made it into Bristol late last night... very much looking forward to #AISB2025 today!

And thanks to the folks in the @socphilpsych.bsky.social community for their feedback on this project over the years!

I think @byrdnick.com took this photo at SPP 2023. Always one of my favorite conferences.

This also tracked with their moral beliefs (e.g., that it would be "less okay" to transgress against robots, that robot transgressors deserved greater punishment, etc.). Ascribing greater mental life to robots also predicted fair donation behavior in the Dictator Game. (6/7)

In this vein of studies, we observed a robust tendency: Younger children were more likely than older children to think of robots as "experiential" (e.g., capable of feeling scared, hungry) --- just as children generally were more likely to think this way than adults. (5/7)

I'm over the moon to announce a new paper from me,
@mattiwilks.bsky.social, and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social, out this week (open-access) in Cognition: "Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots" 🤖 (1/7)

Fantastic time chatting with Conor and Gabriel on last week's Science Unscripted. We focused on my recent research with @drlarisa.bsky.social as part of a larger conversation regarding the origins of human morality.

Thanks for having me! 🧪 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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