neele engelmann

Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.

The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi

We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.

Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.

Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science?

Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)

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 ...

📣 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

Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.

gegenvorschlag :
einfach alles wurst nennen

🚨 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...

Screenshot Anzeige der Unterschriftenzahlen einer Petition, aktuell 11.967

Über Nacht von Null auf 12.000. DA geht noch was.

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

#Chatkontrolle

📣 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.

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...

das habe ich auch erst kürzlich entdeckt! sehr nette sache, vor allem wenn man strecken öfter fährt, lohnt sich das auch bei ausgefallenen zügen viel mehr als sich das geld erstatten zu lassen

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...

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...

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 ...

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

🧠🤖 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...

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

Logo of the new Journal "Experimental Philosophy".

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

@xphijournal.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/xphi...

Please share!

Application Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook

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

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 ...

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...

Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

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...

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.

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...

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/

🚨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

I found it fairly easy to get into even pre-LLMs - their website has a useful tutorial and building blocks for most things you want. Sooo worth it! Happy to share scripts if you decide to give it a try.

Have you ever tried jsPsych?

thanks for sharing your work with us 🙌

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

Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!

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...

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...

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