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How can advanced AI systems better recognize when their reasoning may be wrong, their confidence is unwarranted, or further reflection is needed? 

The Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo, directed by Professor Igor Grossmann, is seeking a postdoctoral fellow for a new interdisciplinary research program on metacognition in advanced AI systems. 

When does combining human expertise with AI improve judgment, and when does the interaction introduce new errors? The Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo is seeking a postdoctoral fellow for a new interdisciplinary research program on human-AI systems for expert judgment and forecasting. 

We are looking for a Project Manager who can turn scientific plans into coordinated, functioning research. This is a hands-on research role, rather than a primarily administrative position. The Project Manager will provide the operational backbone across both programs, working closely with the PI, postdoctoral fellows, technical personnel, students, research assistants, and external collaborators. 

The Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo is seeking a Research Software Engineer to join two new interdisciplinary research programs at the intersection of artificial intelligence, reasoning, forecasting, and human-AI interaction. 

Job Ad! WAC lab is searching for a Research Project Manager for Cultural Narratives, Economic Games, & Decision-making project.

Check out this new article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Imagining and Building Wise Machines: the Centrality of AI Metacognition, which features research from the WaC Lab! This article explores how AI decision-making can be further improved upon to be more effective in thinking outside a pure analytical standpoint, using the basis of human wisdom to fill in the gaps. 

The Wise Judgment Consortium (WJC) invites researchers in psychology and other cognitive and decision sciences to pitch their favourite research idea for upcoming Pathways to Wisdom project. 

The Rational Altruism Lab invites applications for a Postdoc-Employee position on developing computational models of moral decision-making in social dilemmas. The intended start date is Fall 2026.