PhD Candidate in Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

PhD position in the research group for Citizens, Environment and Safety, Department of Psychology, NTNU, within the Norwegian Centre on AI for Decisions (aiD), an interdisciplinary collaboration of three academic institutions, six research organisations and more than 50 professional organisations working to make AI-supported and autonomous decisions effective, safe and trustworthy. The project investigates which mechanisms drive trust or distrust in communication generated by large language models: whether trust in LLM communication follows the same principles as human conversation and differs from other AI, whether knowing one is talking to an AI matters, and whether LLM-built trust affects decision-making.

The work is primarily quantitative and experimental. Gross salary normally NOK 580,000.

Master's degree in psychology or equivalent, corresponding to a five-year Norwegian programme with a major independent project of at least 30 ECTS.