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How can we improve the #CogSci of values and decision-making?
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
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If you could extinguish human (or all) life by pressing a button, would you?
Dr. Rana Qarooni gave a REALLY interesting talk about the prevalence and predictors of pressing this #Doomsday button.
Follow on #ResearchGate to be alerted when the results go public: www.researchgate.net/profile/Rana...
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What makes #discrimination unfair?
Lydia Tsiakiri found a few predictors of its #fairness:
- Responsibility: is it about something controllable?
- Self-interest: are you among the discriminated?
- Country of origin
Follow Lydia on #gScholar for publication alert: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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How can we improve people's understanding of and decisions about #antibiotics and #antibioticResistance?
After lunch, I shared our experiments which found that we may able to do this with something as simple and affordable as an #infographic or #textMessage!
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#AMR #BioXPhi
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What predicts trust in #AI among #healthcare workers?
@anibalmastobiza.bsky.social et al have pilot data.
In #Spanish professionals, trust in #AI systems differed by experience.
Follow Dr. Astobiza on @researchgate.bsky.social to learn about the next studies: www.researchgate.net/profile/Anib...
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How do male- and female-authored papers differ in #Bioethics and #Philosophy of #Medicine?
A #gender classifier, #openData, and #stats made for interesting plots, questions, and discussion!
Follow Vilius Dranseika on www.researchgate.net/profile/Vili...
#corpusLinguistics #textMining #metascience
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Does #addiction excuse one from blame?
Maria Fernanda Rangel et al found it didn't.
- For non-addicts, control and responsibility attribution tracked each other.
- For addicts, they didn't.
Find Maria on @researchgate.bsky.social for updates: www.researchgate.net/profile/Mari...
#xPhi #psychiatry
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Opening day 2 (of 2), @briandavidearp.bsky.social reviews the brief history of #BioXPhi.
How's it pronounced? Bye-Oh + Eks + Fai — #chatGPT gets it.
@xphilosopher.bsky.social recommended in 2018 including "Phi" to indicate it's not just empirical #bioethics.
The first summit was in 2019 at #Yale.
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Closing Day 1 (of 2), Sabine Salloch presented "Digital #Bioethics: Theory, Methods and #Research Practice".
To learn more about this or related work from Dr. Salloch, follow on Bluesky (@salloch.bsky.social) or on @researchgate.bsky.social (below):
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sabi...
#AI #xPhi
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How do people judge human-AI creations?
@briandavidearp.bsky.social et al. found
- People gave more credit to human users of "personalized" than "standard" #LLMs for good outcomes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Even aesthetic liking (and other outcomes) varied by creation method.
#xPhi
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What the #ethics of #AI enhancement?
@yuxinliu.bsky.social et al. found #AI moral #enhancement (AMA) was more acceptable than other enhancement methods, but undermines #moralResponsibility.
Follow Yuxin on #gScholar to be alerted when this is published: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...
#xPhi
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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?
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Christian Rodriguez Perez (@c-rp.bsky.social) found fate, quantity, and species impacted desire to reduce the number of animals used in #research.
Did Dariusz Miękisz find a #sideEffect effect on consent validity? At low levels of blame for being less informed #consent consequences mattered.
#ELSI
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Dr. Carme @isernmas.bsky.social et al. found people *morally* judged others for FEELING #emotion, moreso for showing it!
Faisal Feroz et al. found the acceptability of data storage depended on whether data was private, but not on the #consciousness of the #AI storage system.
#xPhi #ethics #ELSI
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What can we learn about people's #MoralCircle using dilemmas about who to save?
Daniel Martin et al. showed really nice plots of reaction times, similarity scores, and choice changes.
Follow Daniel via @researchgate.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/profile/Dani...
#bioethics #appliedEthics #xPhi
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What can explain such differences in moral expansiveness?
@elianahadtime.bsky.social et al. replicated self-other gaps and nudged judgments about distant others with a dis/similarity writing task.
Follow Dr. Hadjiandreou for the paper alert: scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
#xPhi #moralPsych
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What beings are in your #moralCircle?
The 1st keynote by @mattiwilks.bsky.social reported that
- kids, effective altruists (EAs), and vegetarians showed less #speciesism, #anthropocentrism
- EAs performed better on cognitive tests
Follow Dr. Wilks on #gScholar: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Next, thanks also to our host (and the oldest university in #Switzerland), University of Basel (@unibas.ch).
Check out their #PhD program in #BiomedicalEthics: ibmb.unibas.ch/en/phd-progr...
You can follow the uni's researchers who use #BlueSky with the #starterPack below: bsky.app/profile/unib...
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First, thanks to organizers of the #25BioXPhiSummit:
Tenzin Wangmo
@briandavidearp.bsky.social
@isernmas.bsky.social
@c-rp.bsky.social
Emilian Mihailov
Ivar Hannikainen
@kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social
Second, next month I'll share from the sister Euro #XPhi conference: x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi202...
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Like #Apple, I turned to #Mastodon for my #WWDC social media experience.
My posts continue in the Fediverse at nerdculture.de/@ByrdNick/11...
(During the visual intelligence portion of Apple's 2025 WWDC keynote, Apple displayed a Mastodon feed in the Ivory app.)
#SocialMedia #Fediverse #IvoryApp
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Good question.
I intended “peer review is …crucial” to be more descriptive than normative: it’s is crucial because peer-reviewed publications are still a primary component of evaluation for hiring and promotion.
FWIW, I still find net value in peer review, despite its many imperfections.
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Perhaps philosophy journals like Analysis are not accustomed to papers with dozens of plots. 😬
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Oops. Here’s the correct URL/DOI: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Another mechanism of data quality change from one online crowd work platform (besides new accounts) is higher quality users selling their accounts to lower quality users.
Account selling can also undermine data *accuracy* (e.g., location, language fluency, demographics).
bsky.app/profile/mich...
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“those with the lowest diversity consumed mostly tea” 😉
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I’d expect any variable that involves at least 50% fruit-and-vegetable intake to predict better health outcomes.
So I find myself wanting to trichotomize the flavonoid variable into fruit-or-vegetables, fruit-or-vegetable *juice*, and everything else and see what each predicts.
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Thanks! That helped me find this paper 👇
Muthukrishna, Michael, and Joseph Henrich. “Innovation in the Collective Brain.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 371, no. 1690 (March 19, 2016): 20150192. doi.org/10.1098/rstb....