Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social

Wisdom decoder & cultural voyager🧭 | @uwaterloo Prof | @OnWisdomPodcast co-host | Forecasting Collaborative founder | 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

The broader point: intractable problems require metacognitive control over object-level strategies.

AI alignment may depend not just on optimizing outputs, but on building systems that can reflect on their own limits, alternatives, and uncertainty. #AIalignment #metacognition

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

Can LLMs know what they don’t know?
A paper by Steyvers & Peters offers a sharp empirical look at AI metacognition: how models track their own knowledge boundaries & communicate uncertainty, in the spirit of metacognitive sensitivity metrics.

https://t.co/PNvItOSgRD

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

It connects with the core thesis of our recent @TrendsCognSci paper on “machine wisdom”.

Our paper focuses more on the why: why AI systems need perspectival metacognition to become more robust, explainable, and safe.

https://t.co/9jq831uzP5

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

New paper with the amazing @aejj1228 @amirhkarimi_ : "Metacognition Should Be the Scientific Framework
for Bounded and Effective Self-Governance in Generative AI"
LINK: https://t.co/issfTLQHB3
#metacognition #LLM #selfgovernance

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

3/ Bonus highlight: visits from several @UWaterloo psychology students. 🎓

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

A presto, Firenze. 🇮🇹 Spent May 2026 as a Visiting Fellow at the @EUI_EU Robert Schuman Centre @EUI_Schuman , during EUI's 50th anniversary. Fiesole's hills, Renaissance Florence, and conversations on science for policy. Still processing it all.

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

2/Grateful for visits with colleagues in Genoa, Milan & Lucca, connecting with the Italian Young Academy, and esp. @gaby_um's hospitality and our exchanges on strengthening the evidential value of science in policy foresight, & the role of social scientists in the AI age.

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

Why do we agree about the sky being blue but argue about politics and religion?
@BayesandBounds target article in Psych Inquiry 37:1 says: not because there are 2 kinds of belief; because evidence in the world has locality.
Plus commentaries + reply.
🔗 https://t.co/myEKKkgc1k

[Joseph Sommer @BayesandBounds]

Thrilled this is out! https://t.co/cxZZsoqEFK
🧵
Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

8/ Enormous credit to
@MaksimRudnev who led the analyses and brought this over the finish line, and to
@NAChristakis whose Honduras fieldwork made non-WEIRD validation possible. Also
@AnaLRodriguezD and Ryan Barrett. https://t.co/rteAYf6oFm #measurement #intellectual #humility

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

1/ We've been measuring intellectual humility wrong. Most scales ask "are you intellectually humble?" but the people least humble are the most miscalibrated about it. They overclaim. The #humilityparadox. Out today in Behavior Research Methods. Here's what we did instead. 🧵

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

7/ We propose four design principles for measuring metacognitive constructs, both for IH and others: Contextual specificity Event reconstruction (real, not hypothetical) Accessibility (binary chains over Likert) Model within-person variability

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

What might a "wise" AI look like? How would we build one?
Tomorrow 11:00–13:00 CEST Hybrid: EUI Florence + Zoom Free, I will be at @EUI_EU to talk on benchmarking wisdom and metacognitive AI architectures. With discussant Claire Boine. Register: https://t.co/FkncYb2Okz

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

Sound Judgment in an Age of Uncertainty - my talk from last week at the Bangalore International Centre https://t.co/gRZEYfHflc

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

5/ 1-yr appointment, renewable. Salary above SSHRC + benefits. Apply by May 31 with cover letter, CV, 2–3 pg research statement, up to 3 pubs, 3 referees → [email protected] Inquiries: [email protected] · please share🙏

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1/ We're hiring a postdoc in the Wisdom & Culture Lab
@UWaterloo to lead a new SSHRC-funded project on cultural narratives & decision-making. Fall '26 / Winter '27 start. 🧵

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

4/ 🇨🇦 Global candidates: this is a strong fit for the new Canada Impact+ (CIRTA) award — $70K × 2 yrs, tri-agency funded, designed to recruit international talent. We will actively support competitive candidates for nomination.