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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI

   The influence of mental state attributions on trust in large language models

   Colombatto, Birch and Fleming · Communications Psychology · 2025

   A preregistered experiment with 410 people tested whether attributing mental states to an LLM, such as consciousness or intelligence, predicts how far they accept its advice.

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   1. Supported · 71%In one experiment, people who attributed more consciousness to an LLM were not more likely to take its advice; those who rated it as more intelligent were.“Bayesian analyses revealed strong evidence against a positive correlation between attributions of consciousness and advice-taking; indeed, a dimension of mental states related to experience showed a negative relationship with advice-taking, while attributions of intelligence were strongly correlate…”

2. Computer Science › Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience

   Building Machines that Learn and Think with People

   Collins, Sucholutsky, Bhatt et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

   A Perspective arguing that collaborative-cognition science can guide the building of AI 'thought partners' that think with people, and setting out modes of collaboration and desiderata for such partnerships.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper proposes designing AI 'thought partners' that build and reason over models of the human and the world, using a Bayesian approach.“Drawing on motifs from computational cognitive science, we motivate an alternative scaling path for the design of thought partners and ecosystems around their use through a Bayesian lens, whereby the partners we construct actively build and reason over models of the human and world.”