New preprint: Are robots sociopaths? Led by Leonardo Christov-Moore we argue AIs that learn to decode, understand, and manipulate our emotions, but don't have any feeling themselves, are essentially sociopaths. We sketch out a path to true empathy in AI. psyarxiv.com/6tn42

Exciting news🥳! Thrilled to welcome Dr. Zahra Sheikhbahaee (zahra sheikhbahaee) to the @PPSP_Team bridging physics & #ML, #DeepLearning & #ActiveInference, Single & Multi-agents #MARL. Can't wait to work with her on Social #NeuroAI🚀 Shout-out to Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies & @AdamSafron for their support🙏

Creating artificial empathy is the key to preventing robots and AI from turning malicious, apathetic, and/or antisocial, asserts a new Viewpoint. Leonardo Christov-Moore USC UCLA scim.ag/3lc

New work with the amazing folks at Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies USC UCLA #artificialempathy #aiempathy

I can't agree more. Just as Asimov's laws, we need to develop new "empathy" laws for AI. Some that have come to my mind: 1. AI must be developed and implemented only to boost human intelligence, creativity, and innovation. 1/3

Really interesting follow up from Germán Villalobos . Indeed, how do we leverage empathy in ensuring AI’s niche is complementary? What do we do about the faults and failures of human empathy? This will demand much of us as role models.

A true pleasure taking part of this interview on #artificialempathy with SarCrespi #AI #SciencePodcast

Stay tuned for more amazing work being cooked up by the rigorously unorthodox thinkers at Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies

Why does AI need empathy? Leonardo Christov-Moore Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies joins the Science Magazine Podcast to explain Science Robotics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Looking forward to the pioneering work zahra sheikhbahaee is conducting with Adam Safron and Guillaume Dumas on AI coordination and cooperation along with Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies

🚨✍️New IACS publication: A book chapter called "VR for Cognition and Memory". This chapter, to be featured in Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, touches on the unparalleled verisimilitude of VR for veridical studies of cognition advancedconsciousness.org/vr-cognition-m…

Creating artificial empathy is the key to preventing robots and AI from turning malicious, apathetic, and/or antisocial, asserts a new Science Robotics Viewpoint. scim.ag/3pX

The #SocialAI School: Insights from Developmental Psychology Towards Artificial Socio-Cultural Agents arxiv.org/abs/2307.07871

"Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy" | Leonardo Christov-Moore, Nicco Reggente, Anthony G Vaccaro, and Félix Schoeller | #Robotics #PhilosophyOfAI #FuturesStudies #Empathy #CognitiveScience #Cognition #AI #ArtificialIntelligence (1/n) researchgate.net/publication/37…

Marc Tessier-Lavigne is stepping down as president of Stanford University following an investigation into practices in his laboratory. The matter shows why running a lab is a full-time job, Holden Thorp, dormant account argues in a new Editor’s Blog post. scim.ag/3sx

Artificially vulnerable, fully empathic #AI is required to prevent sociopathic robots. Read the recent Viewpoint at Science #Robotics: scim.ag/5ai

Amazing work from Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and USC . Happy to see it out in the world. Follow-up work is ongoing thanks to support from SFF

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Yale University Brain Synchronization for Perception Nicco Reggente, PhD, neuroscientist and co-founder of Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies “What I'm excited about that I'm not working on is probably individualized entrainment.” Aligning a person's unique alpha brainwave frequency can enhance learning and perceptual