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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. neeleengelmann.com

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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 @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · May 12

Framing, not transparency, reduces cheating in algorithmic delegation: https://osf.io/pqmnx

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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 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 @signal.org · 5d

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

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib-berlin.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 18d

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...

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Anita Keshmirian, PhD. @anitakeshmirian.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social · 27d

🧠🤖 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...

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

@xphijournal.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/xphi...

Please share!

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Hugo Viciana @hugoviciana.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Sep 1

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

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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ivar @ivarr.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨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

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neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · Aug 21

Have you ever tried jsPsych?

neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · Aug 6

thanks for sharing your work with us 🙌

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neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · Aug 5

🚨New paper alert!

"Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research"

Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵

w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social &
Anne-Marie Nussberger

arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390

Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research

Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...

arxiv.org

neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · Jul 20

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Maël Lecoursonnais @lecoursonnais.bsky.social · Jul 22

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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