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Psycholinguistics Coffee

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Informal Meeting to Discuss Psycholinguistic Research

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Please join us for the following talk in room G26, 7 George Square. The link to the online Teams meeting will be sent to the mailing list closer to the time for those who cannot join us in Edinburgh.

 

Speaker

Eugene Philalithis

 

Time and date

March 10th, 2 PM.

 

Title and abstract

Risks from alignment in Human-AI dialogue

Chatbots implementing Large Language Models (LLMs), using language as the main medium to interact with human users, are now ubiquitous. In this talk I consider risks to human participants in these interactions via the lens of psycholinguistic theories of dialogue: are interactions with LLMs dialogue? I spotlight an apparent asymmetry in processing commitments between LLMs and human participants from the viewpoint of interactive alignment (Pickering & Garrod 2005) and assess its consequences for both theoretical exploration and safety. Are there processing commitments that only constrain human participants, and, if so, what risks would this imply for LLM usage?

 

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