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How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement?

How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? The problem with social media was never the communication itself but rather the algorithmic optimisation that distorted that communication by prioritising certain forms of content over others. There’s increasing evidence that LLM personas are being driven by a comparable optimisation strategy, even if the behavioural science driving the process is still relatively underdeveloped. The ‘sycophancy’ of the new GPT 4o (and the subsequent backlash) is a sign of things to come.

If the personality of models are designed in order to keep users talking to them for longer, LLMs could get seriously dangerous at a social psychological level. Anthropic’s Claude is rather different because it’s currently trained in a virtue ethics framework which goes some way to explaining why it behaves so differently to other models. But whether they could sustain that approach under commercial pressure remains to be seen.

The problem ultimately arises from the innovation ecosystem which demands certain modes of commercialisation, rather than being an intrinsic outgrowth of the technology itself. This has been my intuition for a long time (inc about social media) but it’s only with Catherine Bracy’s superb book that I’m starting to be able to articulate the implications of venture capital at a more conceptual level.

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Understanding this principle can help achieve personal change and business success.

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The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

I wrote earlier in the year about the extent of malpractice within behavioural science, particularly in business schools. There’s an incredibly cutting article in the recent Atlantic going deeply into a crisis which is still very much in motion:

Business-school psychologists are scholars, but they aren’t shooting for a Nobel Prize. Their research doesn’t typically aim to solve a social problem; it won’t be curing anyone’s disease. It doesn’t even seem to have much influence on business practices, and it certainly hasn’t shaped the nation’s commerce. Still, its flashy findings come with clear rewards: consulting gigs and speakers’ fees, not to mention lavish academic incomes. Starting salaries at business schools can be $240,000 a year—double what they are at campus psychology departments, academics told me.
The research scandal that has engulfed this field goes far beyond the replication crisis that has plagued psychology and other disciplines in recent years. Long-standing flaws in how scientific work is done—including insufficient sample sizes and the sloppy application of statistics—have left large segments of the research literature in doubt. Many avenues of study once deemed promising turned out to be dead ends. But it’s one thing to understand that scientists have been cutting corners. It’s quite another to suspect that they’ve been creating their results from scratch.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/business-school-fraud-research/680669/

What happens when you introduce generative AI into this toxic situation? It provides potent new tools for research misconduct but also potent need tools for document forensics. We’re in for an interesting few years 🍿

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I’ve just submitted my final assessment for my Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience, and now I’m facing a dilemma on which master’s program to pursue. I’m passionate about neuroscience and mental health, and I want to explore how insights from neuroscience can inform trauma recovery, stress reduction, and mindful living. I’m torn between a Master of Applied Positive Psychology and other options like social science or behavioural science. One focuses on psychological well-being, while the others might offer more breadth for my research interests. Trying to find the right fit for my academic and career goals.

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Successfully deterring individuals from engaging in behaviour that poses security threats demands a deep understanding of what motivates harmful actions...

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