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Chris Summerfield

@summerfieldlab.bsky.social
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Neuronerd, Prof, head of HIP lab in Experimental Psychology, Oxford. Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute. humaninformationprocessing.com.

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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
great opportunity to work with Marco using exciting new methods!
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
in Oxford, a grade 7 (entry-level) postdoc costs about £180K for 3 years, including fringe. For UKRI grants, the university now adds **£460K** in overheads. is that normal? do other UK universities impose such outlandish FEC?
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
AISI has published its research agenda... www.aisi.gov.uk/research-age... There is so much amazing work going on at AISI. Expect much more in the way of published outputs over the coming months!
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Research Agenda
View AISI grants. The AI Security Institute is a directorate of the Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology that facilitates rigorous research to enable advanced AI governance.
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Joey Heffner @jpheffne.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I am SO excited to share my latest #preprint with @robbrutledge.bsky.social, Chongyu Qin, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Martin Chadwick, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind: "Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence" arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091 A short 🧵 1/7
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Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence
Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) have rapidly become a significant part of everyday life, with over a quarter of American adults using them multiple times per week. While these tools o...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
getting this paper published was a bit painful but I am proud of it: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We use deep RL to find mechanisms that help (real) people sustain the commons. Well done to Raphael Koster and Miruna Pislar (not on BlueSky). non-paywalled version on arxiv.
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Deep reinforcement learning can promote sustainable human behaviour in a common-pool resource problem - Nature Communications
Koster et al introduce a deep reinforcement learning (RL) mechanism designed to manage common-pool resources successfully encourages sustainable cooperation among human participants by dynamically adj...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I really, really enjoyed Coming of Age by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social. it's wise and poignant in equal measure. tinyurl.com/4e82na8v.
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Coming of Age
Adolescence is the most misunderstood period of our lives. Coming of Age draws on a decade of expert research to get beneath the stereotypes, expose the myths and reveal the real reasons why teens beh...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
US version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Amazing - there is still at least one senior academic who is not afraid to tell it how it is!
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thank you so much Rebecca! it's been such a pleasure to work with you.
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I am a bit bashful about sharing this profile www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... of me in @thetimes.com, but will do so because it kindly refers to my new book which is coming out in early March. www.penguin.co.uk/books/460891.... The tech titans pictured seem to be decoration (and not my co-authors)
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These Strange New Minds
Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human-like AI systems. The march of this new technology is set to upturn our economies, challenge our democracies, and r...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
New paper led by the unstoppable @qingtianmi.bsky.social. We study how people learn a task that involves combining multiple sources of information. We work out which curricula work best, build a model, and use it to successfully discover new curricula. enjoy! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.
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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
a CS department of a very prominent US university just asked me to write a reference letter for a candidate that they are *planning on* attempting to headhunt from a major tech firm, but whom they have not actually contacted yet. Is that a thing?? what a waste of everyone's time!
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I never fail to learn something from Mark's excellent round up! thank you for doing this :)
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
new researcher positions at UK AI Safety Institute! a behavioural / cognitive scientist with AI research experience civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... and a computational social scientist civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... to work on the social / psychological impacts of AI
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Research Scientist, Engineer and many other roles advertised at UK AI Safety Institute. tinyurl.com/5t32h2p6 Come and work at the cutting edge of AI research from within government! Message me if you want more information. Coming soon: more roles with cog sci / computational social science focus.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 30/11/2023
Open letter to the Society for Neuroscience leadership (led by Rich Ivry) regarding the climate impact of the annual meeting: bit.ly/LetterToSfNL...
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To_SFNLeadership_Nov2023.pdf
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
I've been using this book as reading for UG Cognition lectures in Oxford. It's marvellous - best textbook I've come across for a while. Steve and Marvin have done us all a service in writing this, strongly recommend.
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Wikipedia's own article about itself contains an editorial note complaining that it is excessively promotional in tone. That is really quite meta
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
round up of advances in AI from the other place. Anyone else excited by this new AI called MEG?
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
interesting vacancy for an RE to work at the intersection of AI and social science: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
authors claim GPT-4 provide human-quality reviews of Nature family journals *with no fine tuning*. This seems bonkers to me, if true can only tell us about the parlous state of human review, esp. at glam journals: arxiv.org/abs/2310.01427
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
attention computational neuroscientists. Cosyne submissions are open for the 2024 meeting in Lisbon. www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
I am looking forward to this event - thanks for organising Caswell
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Helen and Dave Edwards were kind enough to invite me onto their podcast Artificiality. I am not sure how much sense I made but here you are anyway: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
I just started to read this book and it is masterful. essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and political science: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
hello world. here for obvious reasons. let's hope this one sticks.
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