Building machines that learn and think with people

KM Collins, I Sucholutsky, U Bhatt, K Chandra… - Nature human …, 2024 - nature.com
What do we want from machine intelligence? We envision machines that are not just tools
for thought but partners in thought: reasonable, insightful, knowledgeable, reliable and …

Passive learning of active causal strategies in agents and language models

A Lampinen, S Chan, I Dasgupta… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
What can be learned about causality and experimentation from passive data? This question
is salient given recent successes of passively-trained language models in interactive …

[PDF][PDF] Good Explanations in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Explanatory Reasoning.

RMJ Byrne - IJCAI, 2023 - ijcai.org
Insights from cognitive science about how people understand explanations can be
instructive for the development of robust, user-centred explanations in eXplainable Artificial …

Counterfactuals and the logic of causal selection.

T Quillien, CG Lucas - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Everything that happens has a multitude of causes, but people make causal judgments
effortlessly. How do people select one particular cause (eg, the lightning bolt that set the …

What would have happened? Counterfactuals, hypotheticals and causal judgements

T Gerstenberg - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How do people make causal judgements? In this paper, I show that counterfactual
simulations are necessary for explaining causal judgements about events, and that …

On the horizon: Interactive and compositional deepfakes

E Horvitz - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Over a five-year period, computing methods for generating high-fidelity, fictional depictions
of people and events moved from exotic demonstrations by computer science research …

How people reason with counterfactual and causal explanations for artificial intelligence decisions in familiar and unfamiliar domains

L Celar, RMJ Byrne - Memory & Cognition, 2023 - Springer
Few empirical studies have examined how people understand counterfactual explanations
for other people's decisions, for example,“if you had asked for a lower amount, your loan …

Causal judgments about atypical actions are influenced by agents' epistemic states

L Kirfel, D Lagnado - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
A prominent finding in causal cognition research is people's tendency to attribute increased
causality to atypical actions. If two agents jointly cause an outcome (conjunctive causation) …

Watchat: Explaining perplexing programs by debugging mental models

K Chandra, KM Collins, W Crichton, T Chen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Often, a good explanation for a program's unexpected behavior is a bug in the programmer's
code. But sometimes, an even better explanation is a bug in the programmer's mental model …

Predicting responsibility judgments from dispositional inferences and causal attributions

AF Langenhoff, A Wiegmann, JY Halpern… - Cognitive …, 2021 - Elsevier
The question of how people hold others responsible has motivated decades of theorizing
and empirical work. In this paper, we develop and test a computational model that bridges …