Tom Griffiths

I'm gonna take a minute to plug a book that I wr- read a long time ago just because it fits this theme really well and I love this book.

The book's called Algorithms to Live By, and it's by Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian.

And the title, I really don't like this title, I'm sorry for the title designers, because it kinda sounds like a hack your life kind of-

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Welcome to Foresight Institute Radio.

Today's guest is Tom Griffiths, professor of psychology and computer science at Princeton University and co-author of Algorithms to Live By, a book on how computational thinking can illuminate human decision-making.

Tom's talk uses the tools of cognitive science to map the jagged edges of AI capability, the places where AI systems dramatically outperform human cognition, and the places where they fail in ways humans typically don't.

Understanding the shape of that frontier matters for how we build systems that combine human and AI judgment.

Welcome to Fawcett's Computation Group.

This one should be a really fun seminar.

We're so excited to have you here, Tom Griffiths.

Your name is definitely circling around in the Fawcett community.

Daniel Kahneman died in 2024.

The Cognition Project was created by me, Tom Griffiths, and it's produced by Yael Eben-Ohr with support from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University.

Our engineer is Tarek Fouda.

We thank Brian Christian, Tania Lombroso, and our interviewees for their help in making this project possible.