{"id":15143,"date":"2023-09-25T08:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=15143"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:53","slug":"cog-sci-student-taran-allan-mckay-and-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2023\/cog-sci-student-taran-allan-mckay-and-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Cog Sci student Taran Allan-McKay and A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cog Sci student Taran Allan-McKay and A.I.\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University FASS on Instagram: &#8220;As mounting concerns about the ethics of AI continue to make headlines, Cognitive Science student Taran tells us about his interest in ethical AI, and how his well-rounded knowledge in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy impact his approach to the field of Computer Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taran just completed a @carleton_u CUROP-funded research project where he coded a simulated environment to demonstrate the pitfalls of reinforcement learning (essentially, learning through reward\/punishment).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pitfalls of reinforcement learning apply across all intelligent beings, including humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taran\u2019s work helps draw the connections between AI and humans, hard sciences and social sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taran is a member of Carleton\u2019s Animus Lab, led by Professor Mary Kelly, and wishes to thank Dr. Kelly and the graduate-level researchers in the Lab who helped with developing his idea and debugging his code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University FASS on Instagram: &#8220;As mounting concerns about the ethics of AI continue to make headlines, Cognitive Science student Taran tells us about his interest in ethical AI, and how his well-rounded knowledge in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy impact his approach to the field of Computer Science. Taran just completed a @carleton_u CUROP-funded research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15152,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions\/15152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}