Antoine Marie
@A_Marie_sci
🇫🇷 PhD. I study how people reason and communicate about politicized topics 🔥 ANR Access ERC Nominee @CEVIPOF @SciencesPo @ENS_Ulm @AarhusUni_int
🔥New preprint on why political activists sometimes try to censor free speech🔥 “Speech repression and threat narratives in politics: social goals and cognitive foundations” osf.io/preprints/osf/…
Finally got round to reading this paper in detail. It’s a tour de force. If you’re interested in the potential impact of AI on election outcomes you should put it by your bedside. Key takeaway: let’s remain alive to, but healthily skeptical of, the possibility of large impacts.
How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share @Sacha_Altay’s & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is out via @knightcolumbia.
It always blows my mind how people on the left manage to (verbally) dismiss selfishness as a ubiquitous human motive... when selfishness actually drives so many of their attitudes and practical decisions. What you'd expect from a "press secretary" style social cognition, tho.
For anyone interested, I wrote about why the below perspective on human nature and hunter-gatherer egalitarianism is mistaken here 👇