AI Epistemic Impacts Initiative

Working to understand the impacts of AI on human thinking.

About

The AI Epistemic Impacts Initiative (EII) is a group of researchers working on the epistemic risks and virtues of AI. The aim is to understand the best ways to protect human minds from harm, and how AI can be used to strengthen humanity’s ability to make good decisions.

Already AI systems are used as digital advisers, tutors, confidants, and therapists. These interactions have the potential to change how people think, what they believe, and how they make important decisions.

What we do

EII members work together to discuss new findings, share work in progress and publish research. The work covers both the ways AI can harm human thinking and the ways it can support better reasoning and decision-making.

Current research projects (coming soon)

Cognitive capacities worth protecting

EII uses the mental functions defined in the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a map of which aspects of human cognition AI could harm or support.

Full framework (coming soon)

People

  • Julia Shaw

    Director

    Visiting Researcher at the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a visitor at the Centre for the Governance of AI.

Participate

EII welcomes researchers who study how AI affects human thinking and would like to join the group or collaborate on a project.

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