Cognitive Science and Generative AI
Ellie Pavlick
Computer Science and Linguistics, Brown University
“Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms in Large Language Models” (17 Dec 2024, 16:00 GMT, online)
registration: https://psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-seminar-series/
Anya Ivanova
Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissociating language and thought in humans and in machines (5 Dec 2024, 16:00 GMT, online)
Cameron Buckner
Philosophy, Donald F. Cronin Chair in the Humanities, Univ. of Florida
LLMs as models of human reasoning (21 Nov 2024, 16:00 GMT, online)
Eric Schulz
Director of the Institute of Human-Centered AI, Helmholtz Munich
Machine Psychology (12 Nov 2024, 16:00 GMT, online)
Past Seminar Series: Tech and Democracy 2020/21
The integration of technology into our daily lives poses new questions for society. While new media and online platforms afford unprecedented opportunities for a more informed public, concerns have been raised around how these same technologies might undermine democracy.
In this seminar series, we heard from researchers working at the intersection of complex social systems and all things computational. This includes research addressing substantive questions of human behaviour in the digital age, as well as research taking innovative methodological approaches that leverage newfound capacities for computation and online data collection.
David Garcia
Professor at the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, TU Graz
The Politicisation of Medical Topics on Social Media (20 May 2021)
Sandra González-Bailón
Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
The Influence of Automated Accounts on Social Media (20 April 2021)
Judith Möller
Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam
From Filter Bubbles to Fringe Bubbles: The Effects of Algorithmic News Curation on Polarisation and Radicalisation (23 March 2021)
Nicola Perra
Associate Professor at the Business School of Greenwich University
Modelling the Spreading of the COVID-19 Pandemic at Different Spatio-temporal Scales (16 February 2021)
Taha Yasseri
Associate Professor at the University College Dublin School of Sociology
The Double-edged Sword of Online Politics (21 January 2021)
Ceren Budak
Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information
Political Misinformation in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections (19 November 2020)
Martin Moore
Senior Lecturer in Political Communication Education & Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication, and Power at King’s College London
Now Everyone’s at it: Pranking, Trolling, Shitposting and the Democratisation of Electoral Disruption (20 October 2020)
Milena Tsvetkova
Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Inequality and Fairness with Heterogenous Endowments (17 September 2020)
