4 papers
Combining Theory of Mind and Kindness for Self-Supervised Human-AI Alignment
Joshua T. S. Hewson
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into critical infrastructures and everyday life, ensuring its safe deployment is one of humanity's most urgent challenges.…
We Urgently Need Intrinsically Kind Machines
Joshua T. S. Hewson
Artificial Intelligence systems are rapidly evolving, integrating extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. While these frameworks offer benefits, they risk misalignment at the algorith…
Evaluating internal and external dissonance of belief dynamics in social systems
Joshua T. S. Hewson, Ke Fang
Belief dynamics are fundamental to human behavior and social coordination. Individuals rely on accurate beliefs to make decisions, and shared beliefs form the basis of successful c…
One system for learning and remembering episodes and rules
Joshua T. S. Hewson, Sabina J. Sloman, Marina Dubova
Humans can learn individual episodes and generalizable rules and also successfully retain both kinds of acquired knowledge over time. In the cognitive science literature, (1) learn…