Ilia Sucholutsky
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Assistant Professor
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Trustworthy AI, human-AI interaction, persuasion and manipulation of AI assistants, AI evaluation and reasoning failures, representational alignment, multi-agent systems, cognitive science of AI
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Biography
Ilia Sucholutsky is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he leads the AI Thought Partner Lab in developing AI that thinks with people rather than instead of them. His research asks what a system must understand about individuals, pairs, and groups to be a good partner. The lab uses a combination of theory, simulation, and large-scale human-AI studies to answer questions like when do models and people accept advice they should have questioned, when does confirmation bias persist in language models, when does longer reasoning make models worse, how do people decide when to rely on an AI, and how do systems that seem to benefit individual users end up impacting society as a whole. Ilia is also a co-PI on the DARPA In the Moment program on algorithmic trust. Before joining Purdue, he was a Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science, a postdoc at the intersection of computer science and cognitive science at Princeton University, and he holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Waterloo.