Conversations in Graduate Education
This series offers seminars on special topics in graduate education for Stony Brook's graduate community.
Fall 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 3 pm via Zoom
How is artificial intelligence reshaping the way we understand scientific research? Join us via Zoom as Drs. Lisa Messeri (Yale) and M.J. Crockett (Princeton) discuss their Nature article, “Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research,” and what it means for graduate education.
Panelists
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Dr. Lisa Messeri Lisa Messeri is an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, where she specializes in the anthropology of science and technology. Her research focuses on the norms, aspirations, and consequences of work done by expert communities as they forge new fields of knowledge and invention. She is the author of Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds (Duke 2016) and In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles (Duke 2024). |
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Dr. Molly Crockett Molly Crockett is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Psychology & the University Center for Human Values. Their research and teaching examines psychological impacts of technology, including social media and AI. Crockett’s work integrates theory and methods from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, data science, and science & technology studies. Crockett co-directs the Future Values Initiative, an interdisciplinary program that supports scholarship in the applied ethics of science and technology and builds community among scientists and humanists at Princeton. |