301 - Guest: Ricky Sethi, Artificial Metacognition Researcher, part 1

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Ricky Sethi discussing artificial metacognition and its implications in AI and human cognition.

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? Can it think about thinking? Here to help us understand this whole thing is artificial metacognition researcher Ricky Sethi. He is Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University, Director of Research for the Madsci Network, and an Adjunct Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research spans fact-checking misinformation, virtual communities, and artificial metacognition, where he focuses on designing GenAI systems that can monitor, evaluate, and regulate their own reasoning. Is that cool or what? Ricky has a bachelors in neurobiology and physics, an M.S. in physics/information systems, and a PhD in AI from UC Riverside. He has over 50 scholarly publications, and his work has been covered in outlets such as the Chicago Tribune, The Conversation, and Communications of the ACM. Recently, he has introduced the Metacognitive State Vector framework for quantifying key cognitive signals in ensembles of…

People in this episode

Guest: Ricky Sethi

Topics covered

• metacognition
• artificial intelligence
• cognitive science
• neuroscience
• psychology
• reasoning

Keywords

• metacognition
• artificial intelligence
• cognitive signals
• large language models
• System One thinking
• System Two thinking
• fact-checking
• neurobiology
• psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fitchburg State University, Madsci Network, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, UC Riverside, Chicago Tribune, The Conversation, Communications of the ACM

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