Ben Prystawski @benpry.bsky.social · 26/06/2026New preprint! AI agents have shown impressive scientific automation capabilities. Can we apply them to psychology research, *including* human data collection? We introduce auto-psych, a framework that proposes cognitive models and uses them to design and run human experiments. 1/ 2427
Ben Prystawski @benpry.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Prior work on automated scientific discovery has made a lot of progress on critiquing and improving models, but these systems are bottlenecked on collecting data. In psychology, though, lots of data collection happens through online experiments. 2/ 130
Anhedaria Morgendharma @aesthetic.northsky.social · 27/06/2026Building theoretical cognitive models with llm’s is like, the primary trigger for chatbot psychosis btw and why you get massive swaths of people prattling on about “recursive cognition” 100