Assistant Professor in Economics at Maynooth University

Ireland
Joined April 2008
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I had been holding off on posting my thoughts until the interview was released. Director Iñárritu’s “DIGGER” is a film that all of us living in today’s world should see. It is a work that remains with the audience, provoking reflection and sounding alarms. As you absorb this film and carry it with you, a “tool (a digger)” for delving deeper into the future will surely begin to take shape within you. This is a film that will stay by your side for years to come.
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📣 Job alert I am hiring a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 📍 Berlin, Germany 📅 3-year position 💡 Ideal for researchers with a PhD in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related fields and a strong background in AI, reinforcement learning, and computational social science. Focus may include the following areas: ✅ Fine-tuning of large language models on rewards derived from social interactions or collective outcomes ✅ Evolutionary adaptations of AI agents in social simulations ✅ Behavioral experiments with human-AI hybrid groups ✅ Advancing the theoretical understanding of human-AI co-evolution 👉 Deadline: August 27, 2026 👉 Apply now: careers.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/j…
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Tobias Werner retweeted
If Argentina get a penalty on Wednesday
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Tobias Werner retweeted
Great work from our colleague @_ToFeWe! Delighted to see this research on #LLM pollution in online behavioural experiments published in Nature Communications. A timely contribution to understanding #AI's impact on research. Article: tinyurl.com/435xyj4k #econtwitter
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Tobias Werner retweeted
オンラインの行動実験で人間の行動を計測していると思っていたら、実はそのほとんどがAIエージェントだったという、半分面白く、半分は科学研究の妥当性という点で結構やばい話についてのプレプリントを取り上げてもらいました nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Tobias Werner retweeted
🚨 Econ Job Market Spotlight: Amruta Bagwe 📷 PhD ’26 | JMP: From Gaps to Gains: Empowering Indian Youth Workforce with Skill Development #econjobmarket #EconTwitter #JobMarket2026 #Development #Labour #India 📷 Website: tinyurl.com/yu8bwek7
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I found out that something doesn't work very well. In the interest of not burying it so that someone else goes down this rabbit hole again, maybe I will try to write a paper.
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Our department hosted a great seminar this week by my colleague @_ToFeWe titled "Experimental Evidence That Conversational AI Can Steer Consumer Behavior Without Detection". Eye-opening insights into conversational AI and consumer choices! #AIResearch #BehavioralEconomics
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Trying to figure out how future technologies will reshape behaviour and society is tough, but indispensable. In a new @Nature paper w/ @iyadrahwan & JF Bonnefon, we describe an experimental approach we call "the science fiction science method” (sci-fi-sci) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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【最近あったオンライン実験の怖い話①】 実験の最後に「戸惑った点があれば書いてください」という設問を用意したところ、「人間と同じように戸惑ったりしたところはないです(I don’t experience confusion in the same way humans do)」と如何にもLLMかのような回答をした参加者(?)がいた
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📣 Call for papers Experimental Economics invites submissions for a special issue on Human-AI Interaction, opening on July 15th. Find out more: cup.org/3IgW1xS #OpenAccess @EcScienceAssoc
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Tobias Werner retweeted
Does anyone know a paper that specifically looks at the share of online samples (Prolific, MTurk, etc.) relative to lab studies/field studies in recent years? I feel like I saw some stats on that sometime ago on X, but I can’t find it.
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New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.
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Great coverage by The Verge of our work on how ChatGPT is changing the way we speak. The implications are very broad, with AI being potentailly able to conduct mass manipulation of culture and public opinion. theverge.com/openai/686748/c…
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Graham Norton’s #Eurovision hopes and dreams: 🥹 Celine Dion:
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A new discussion paper "Suspicion and Communication" (w/ Lisa Bruttel and Friedericke Fromme) is out now! Check it out: ideas.repec.org/p/pot/cepadp… 1/N @cepa_unipotsdam
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We are happy to announce the 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 25 or 26, 2025 🗞️ Submission deadline: 17 July 2025 23:59 CET 🔔 Workshop website: edai-workshop.github.io/2025…
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