Mind the Gap: How AI Papers Misuse Psychology
TL;DR for operators AI teams love borrowing psychology. It gives messy model behaviour a tidy name: “reasoning,” “empathy,” “Theory of Mind,” “bias,” “motivation,” “attention.” The problem is that a borrowed label is not the same as a valid construct. A new paper, The Incomplete Bridge: How AI Research (Mis)Engages with Psychology, studies this borrowing directly by mapping 1,006 LLM-related papers from major AI venues and the 2,544 psychology papers they cite.1 ...