Displaying 5 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "ai".
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Episode 133: What's the Environmental Cost of AI? (with Andy Masley)
August 31st, 2026 | 1 hr 47 mins
AI, animal welfare, autonomous vehicles, bourbon, data centers, effective altruism, p(doom)
Andy Masley joins Yoel and Mickey to talk about a claim that's made him (in)famous: using AI chatbots doesn't meaningfully affect your carbon footprint or water usage. We ask Andy what data centers actually do with water, why "ten times a Google search" is not a useful metric, and why people really don't want data centers built near them.
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Episode 131: What's Wrong With AI (with Molly Crockett)
June 1st, 2026 | 1 hr 45 mins
AI, empathy, neuroscience
Cognitive scientist Molly Crockett joins the show to talk about what it's like to be known in the field as an "AI skeptic." We talk about where Molly is actually skeptical, but also what she thinks that label gets wrong.
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Episode 126: Using AI to Improve Science (with Paul Litvak)
January 10th, 2026 | 1 hr 14 mins
AI, dead goose, meta-science, p-curve, robin dawes
Paul Litvak joins the show to talk about how AI tools can help us measure research quality and assess evidence in the scientific literature. His first project is a way to extract test statistics and p-values from papers automatically, with no manual coding needed. We also talk about legendary researcher Robin Dawes (for whom Paul's non-profit is named) and Paul's exit from academia. Plus, Yoel reveals a shameful secret about his use of AI.
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Episode 120: Transparent Replications (with Spencer Greenberg)
June 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
AI, importance hacking, p-hacking, replication, simplest valid analysis
Returning guest Spencer Greenberg joins the show to talk replications, what psychologist think of terror management theory (and other controversial topics), and a machine-learning tool he developed to predict correlations between psychological traits and survey questions.
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Episode 117: Good News for the Chronics (with Mickey Inzlicht)
March 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 19 mins
AI, cannabis, empathy, preregistration, spsp
On-again off-again co-host Mickey Inzlicht joins the show to debrief about the recent SPSP conference, dissect a new paper purporting to show working memory deficits in heavy cannabis users, and evaluate some critiques of AI empathy.