Seeking suggested readings & videos for a new course on 'AI and Psychology'

Geoffrey Miller

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Seeking suggested readings & videos for a new course on 'AI and Psychology'

Geoffrey Miller

1 min readMay 20, 2024

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Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye 🔸

I was recommended Perplexity for looking for course materials.

You can search academic databases, as well as perform broad searches on the web or YouTube.

Provide context like ChatGPT does. For your purpose, mention that you are building a course on artificial intelligence and psychology and give details about it.

Geoffrey Miller

Thanks! Appreciate the suggestion.

Abby Babby

This course sounds cool! Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be too much relevant material out there.

This is a stretch, but I think there's probably some cool computational modeling to be done with human value datasets (e.g., 70,000 responses to variations on the trolley problem). What kinds of universal human values can we uncover? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1911517117

For digestible content on technical AI safety, Robert Miles makes good videos. https://www.youtube.com/c/robertmilesai

Geoffrey Miller

Abby - good suggestions, thank you. I think I will assign some Robert Miles videos! And I'll think about the human value datasets.

Tao

A few quick ideas:
1. On the methods side, I find the potential use of LLMs/AI as research participants in psychology studies interesting (not necessarily related to safety). This may sound ridiculous at first but I think the studies are really interesting.
From my post on studying AI-nuclear integration with methods from psychology:

[Using] LLMs as participants in a survey experiment, something that is seeing growing interest in the social sciences (see Manning, Zhu, & Horton, 2024; Argyle et al., 2023; Dillion et al., 2023; Grossmann et al., 2023).

2. You may be interested or get good ideas from the Large Language Model Psychology research agenda (safety-focused). I haven't gone into it so this is not an endorsement.

3. Then you have comparative analyses of human and LLM behavior. E.g. the Human vs. Machine paper (Lamparth, 2024) compares humans and LLMs' decision-making in a wargame. I do something similar with a nuclear decision-making simulation, but it's not in paper/preprint form yet.

Geoffrey Miller

Helpful suggestions, thank you! Will check them out.

Samrin Saleem

This sounds very interesting and closely aligns with my personal long-term career goals. Would the seminar content will be made available online for those looking to complete the course remotely or is this purely in-person?

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