🚀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵: 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴

We often talk about hallucinations, overconfidence, and unreliable outputs in AI — but what if these behaviors aren’t mysterious quirks at all?

In my latest piece, I connect decades of psychological research to what we’re seeing in modern LLMs and autonomous agents. From perceived authority to cognitive overload dynamics, this is about 𝘄𝗵𝘆 current systems behave the way they do and 𝗵𝗼𝘄 that influences human judgement, trust, and decision-making.

🔗 Read more: https://cirriustech.co.uk/blog/synthetic-authority-and-cognitive-overload-in-large-language-models/

Key themes explored:
• How fluency becomes a proxy for competence
• Why overload produces confident but unreliable responses
• The psychological mechanics behind hallucination and affirmation
• What “synthetic authority” means for safe AI design

If you’re interested in responsible AI, system design, and the human side of automation, this one dives deeper than most.

Let’s rethink uncertainty, authority, and where true competence comes from. 💡

#AI #LLM #CognitiveScience #ResponsibleAI #SystemsDesign #Safety #HumanFactors

Your brain time-travels every time you approach your favourite coffee shop. That anticipatory lift you feel?

Scientists at McGill just watched neurons literally shift backward in time—from the reward to the cue.

This isn't a metaphor. It's measurable, visible biology.

🎧 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/18657278

📖 https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/your-brain-is-lying-to-you-and-thats

📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX https://exchange.prx.org/p/606992

PRX Series: The Predictive Mind https://exchange.prx.org/series/60019-the-predictive-mind-how-your-brain-cheats-reality

#Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #BrainResearch #Memory #Psychology #Science #Academia #NeurosciencePodcast #PredictiveCoding #Hippocampus

🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.

This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.

If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception

#philosophy #cognitivescience #cogsci #science #ai #chatgpt

Computer theorists thus form a neo-mechanistic school of philosophy. Their tenacious defense of some grossly exaggerated claims of what computers can and will do is more understandable if we realize that they represent a school of metaphysics.

#AI #ComputerScience #CognitiveScience #mind #PhilosophyOfMind

The breakthrough: don't suppress chaos, navigate it. Learn to work WITH your network's rich, high-dimensional internal dynamics instead of forcing them into rigid order.

It's the difference between damming a river and learning to read its currents.

#CognitiveScience #ComputationalNeuroscience

Your brain has a limit—around 7 things.
We built systems for 70. But that's not the problem. That's the design specification. 🧠✨

New #Heliox Season 5 finale: The Architecture of Understanding
This isn't about collapse. It's about reconstruction.

Why understanding our cognitive boundaries becomes our greatest strength:
• London cabbies
+ Marshallese navigators work WITH seven-dimensional minds
• Trust biology outperforms extraction economics (84% prediction accuracy!)
• Canadian policy choosing resilience: Build Canada Homes, ASHRAE 241 ($30B value)
• AI ethics frameworks honoring human creativity •
75 countries translating research into real change

52 minutes synthesizing neuroscience, economics, climate science, AI governance into empowering framework.

🎧 Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/2405788
📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-understanding
Available for Broadcast on PRX https://exchange.prx.org/p/599271

#SciencePodcast #Neuroscience #AIethics #ClimateAction #CognitiveScience #Neuroplasticity

Listening to (or rather planning not to listen to) Andy Clark's new book "The Experience Machine"...I read the first two chapters myself. The narrator is not good, making me dislike the content...and guess who it is? Andy Clark. Harumph. #philosophyofmind #cognitivescience