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Jean-François Bonnefon

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Behavioral Science of AI @ Toulouse School of Economics @tse-fr.eu Director of @iast.fr Chair of Moral AI @ Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute https://jfbonnefon.github.io/ I have a successful life with bipolar disorder

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 24d

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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IASToulouse @iast.fr · 6h

IAST extends its warmest congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, for their pioneering work on growth and innovation ! 👏

Joel Mokyr served on IAST Scientific Board from 2015 to 2024.

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 1d

Process still needs a lot of human oversight, we discarded ~40% of headlines after quality controls. Plus, data collected in a simulated social media, US only. Do contact us if you’re a newsroom or platform interested in a field pilot!

Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 1d

Great potential for snowballing effects: skeptics sharing accurate climate facts with other skeptics is an important change in epistemic diet, with promising effects on epistemic health +

Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 1d

After actually reading one of their bookmarks, participants shifted slightly toward the scientific consensus. Importantly, they did no regret amplifying the headlines in their network +

Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 1d

A professional fact-checker vetted every modified headline for accuracy. Positive engagement with modified climate headlines increased by ~10pp among skeptics, and the effect was strongest among the most skeptics +

Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 1d

published today in @natclimate.nature.com with @bencebago.bsky.social & @philmuller.bsky.social

We used Llama-3 70B to subtly rewrite climate headlines and make them palatable for skeptics. 2,000 US participants upvoted, downvoted, bookmarked headlines in a reddit-styled experiment. +

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 1d

Climate skeptics actively engage in information avoidance. We need to bring them to the facts and let the facts do their work:

❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science - Nature Climate Change

Climate sceptics tend to avoid climate information, making it even harder to reduce scepticism. This study shows that generative AI can enhance sceptics’ engagement with climate news by tailoring headlines to their existing perspective and shift their beliefs towards the scientific consensus.

www.nature.com

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 2d

Data available upon request

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 4d

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 2d

For your undergraduates who might be interested in a MA in France: there are fellowships!

lafayette.villa-albertine.org/participatin...

Partner Universities - Lafayette Fellowship

Villa Albertine and France Science are proud to partner with 15 leading institutions throughout France for the inaugural edition of the Lafayette Fellowship. Ranging from schools specializing in manag...

lafayette.villa-albertine.org

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 5d

@research-fri.bsky.social's ForecastBench - their benchmark that tracks how accurate LLMs are at forecasting real-world events.

A linear extrapolation of state-of-the-art LLM forecasting performance suggests LLMs will match superforecasters in November 2026.

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 7d

Taylor Swift singing about peer review

It's actually sweet
All the time you've spent on me
It's honestly wild
All the effort you've put in
It's actually romantic
Stop talking dirty to me
It sounded nasty, but it
Feels like you're flirting with me

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 7d

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 7d

This is an interesting debate about AI stories between an OpenAI researcher who works on AI writing and one of the greatest living short story writers.

Now that we have machines that can write novel stories, and increasingly very good or moving stories, we need to think more about what that means.

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 10d

Very witty, but could also work as the introduction of a social psychology paper from before the replication reform 😅

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11d

I’m gonna release a bullshit not-peer-reviewed survey that claims “human adults think about squid more than any other animal”, but my sampling was just asking people at the cephalopod conference. Maybe they’ll write me up in the independent lmao.

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 12d

🎵 I / am /
too sexy for that grant
too sexy for that grant🎵

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 12d

what a playful cover featuring examples of what participants told the AI to do in our ‘delegation to AI can increase dishonest behavior‘ article

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 14d

multiple pleiads

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Wim De Neys @wimdeneys.bsky.social · 14d

Paper is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t want AI to fix autocorrect mistakes because they have a net positive effect on happiness. For one embarrassing mistake there must be 10 which are actually pretty furry

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 16d

please wait like a day or two, i have no real process for remembering who the good accounts are

go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17d

We asked people in 17 advanced economies what gives them meaning in life.

Americans were much more likely to mention religion as a source of meaning.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/...

The topic of faith, religion and spirituality is also one where some societies notably differ. Outside of the U.S., religion is never one of the top 10 sources of meaning cited – and no more than 5% of any non-American public mention it. In the U.S., however, 15% mention religion or God as a source of meaning, making it the fifth most mentioned topic. For some, the emphasis on religion is about their personal relationship with Jesus: “I follow Jesus so my faith and hope is based on how he plays a role in my life. I don’t rely on any human to benefit my life.” Others note the benefits that come from being part of organized religion, such as camaraderie in a tough time: “My husband just died, so life is not very fulfilling right now. The support of family and friends, church, and his coworkers have helped me find meaning, as well as thinking about the good things we shared.” Evangelical Protestants in the U.S. are much more likely than mainline Protestants to mention faith as a source of meaning – 34% vs. 13%, respectively. Across all U.S. religious groups, those who attend religious services more often are much more likely to cite their religion in their answer than those who are less frequent attendees.

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 18d

Haha maybe they ended up in spam too