neele engelmann

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

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

Visiting Norrköping for @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 this week? Here's a little unofficial local guide to food, coffee (all within 5mns walk!) & activities—compiled by someone who lives here!
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I'm here too!

I just posted a new pre-print where I argue that dual character concepts are something new and interesting in legal philosophy and beyond and that they can't be reduced to ambiguity, prototypes, or metalinguistic negotiations. Comments are very welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Talking about oral talks here, not posters

Anyone else presenting virtually at #CogSci2025 who understands the updated presenter guidelines? Do we still need to submit a recorded talk or not? And do we need to upload our slides at all? cognitivesciencesociety.org/presenter-gu...

oh gott ja same :( aber glaube ab 3.15 war man wieder safe laut dem film?

Neele Engelmann giving a talk titled, "Understanding and preventing unethical behavior in delegation to AI"

A methods slide

Results

Discussion Transparency - knowing how much unearned gain an algorithmic delegate produces for the user and how it achieves this - did not curb cheating in the die rolling game. Yet, process measures revealed that participants actively engaged with transparency information - hence the null effect on behavior is likely not explained by disinterest or lack of understanding. Instead, transparency alone appears insufficient to shift participants' moral interpretation of the task or to motivate ethical behavior. In contrast, framing manipulations significantly influenced behavior. Explicitly labeling dishonest actions as such (moral framing) reduced cheating.

After lunch, @neeleengelmann.bsky.social addressed why delegation to #AI may encourage #cheating:

Factors
- Transparency of how much unearned gain an [AI] delegate produces for the user and how it achieves this
- Framing: whether dishonest actions are explicitly labeled as such
- Their interaction?

The 2025 BioXPhi Program poster.

The 2025 BioXPhi Summit program of talks and events.

📊 🇨🇭 🧵 Today and tomorrow, I'm posting about the talks and posters from the 2025 BioXPhi Summit in #Switzerland. Follow along!

The #conference website: ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-ou...

The program: ibmb.unibas.ch/fileadmin/us...

#bioethics #xPhi #medicine #healthcare #policy #cogSci #psychology #AI

Priority Programme “Rethinking Disinformation (Re:DIS)” (SPP 2573)

🚨 Call for Proposals: DFG Priority Programme “Rethinking Disinformation (Re:DIS)” (SPP 2573) The DFG invites interdisciplinary research on disinformation from an epistemic perspective. 🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
📍 Online info roundtable: 27 June 2025, 4–8pm CET
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Wir öffnen unsere Türen zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften! ✨

Vielfältiges Programm für Groß & Klein – kommt vorbei!
📍 Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin (Lentzeallee 94)
📆 28. Juni 2025
💸 Jubiläumstickets online: nur 5 €

🔗 Programm: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2047157/prog...

Humans program artificial delegates to accurately solve collective-risk dilemmas but lack precision | PNAS In an era increasingly influenced by autonomous machines, it is only a matter of time before strategic individual decisions that impact collective ...

Fresh in #PNAS: The final paper from my PhD is out! We experimentally study how delegation to artificial agents affects cooperation in a collective-risk dilemma.
Read the full paper → doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Do AI builders hold different values from AI users?

We show that AI builders and men are more utilitarian and less supportive of pro-diversity outputs, highlighting ongoing concerns about workforce diversity and whose values are shaping AI.

tinyurl.com/AIcognit

We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...

Screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail. The caption reads "Einige verrückte Arschwürmer".

Comic of two stick figures next to a car. Above them is the following text "My hobby: Whenever anyone calls something an [adjective]-ass [noun], I mentally move the hyphen to one word to the right." One stick figure says "Man, that's a sweet ass-car".

YouTube Auto translate doing the classic XKCD ass-car thing, I love it.
They even translated it to a closed compound 👌

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Ok, time for a short thread about this paper.

My sense over the past six months or so is that chain-of-thought prompting as used in e.g. ChatGPT o.3 improves substantially upon previous systems such as ChatGPT 4.o, at least for certain tasks.

But how revolutionary is it?

Ok yes, we had the same impression in a recent experiment

Yes, definitely noticed! Does it look like bots, or just low-quality human responses in your case?

Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech?

Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social

We are looking for 3 Post Docs in
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5

Application deadline is June 15, 2025.

Email starting with "Sehr geehrte Frau Engelmann, ich glaube jetzt ist komplett der Wurm drin."

starting into the week like.... 🪱

If I'm ever tempted to use Qualtrics for anything else than the simplest of surveys again, I need someone to remind me to shoot myself in the foot instead 👍🙏

Congrats! Looking forward to reading 😍

Might consent morally transform some human interactions but not others? In our new article in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, @jorgesuarezm.bsky.social, @ivarr.bsky.social, and I explore whether the information consent conveys may be at odds with normative standards in the sexual domain. 🧵

Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Gruppenfoto des Teams von humanet3. Es zeigt 4 Personen in einem hellen Gebäude. Bildrechte bei Christian Demarco

Auch nominiert für das beste Forschungsumfeld: humanet3. Das Team forscht zur digitalen #Transformation und ist eine gemeinsame Forschungsgruppe der Max-Planck-Institute @mpil.de, @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social und @mpib-berlin.bsky.social. 📲
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...