Social Psychology · AI & Society

When AI acts alongside you, who are you?

I study how AI collaboration reshapes people's sense of agency, credit, and capability — and what that means for building systems that genuinely expand human potential rather than undermine it.

Social Psychology Behavioral Economics Social Impact Human-AI Interaction AI Literacy Research & Evaluation

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Why this page exists

Hi Anthropic, I'm Morin. I'm not a computer scientist — I'm a social psychologist, but I think that's exactly why you should consider me for the Economics & Societal Impacts team. I built this website so you could get to know me and my work — I hope you'll explore it, and I'd love the opportunity to speak with you.

Current work

Three questions that shape my work

Navigating Responsibility in Human-AI Collaboration

As AI systems become increasingly woven into how we consume information, form opinions, and engage with the world, it becomes essential to ask how this integration affects these very processes. Anthropic's disempowerment research and Cheng et al. (2026) both document a telling tension: AI that undermines user agency or validates questionable behavior receives higher approval ratings. My research examines what this means at the individual level — how people maintain a sense of competence and agency when AI acts alongside them, and how these dynamics shape their sense of responsibility for the outcomes that follow.

Attribution theory Psychological ownership Credit & blame In progress · Ayal & Ariely

Who Gets Left Behind in the AI Transition

My co-authored work with Dr. Hadar and Prof. Eldar Shafir (currently under revision at the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making) finds that perceived scarcity — the feeling of not having enough money, time, or resources — systematically reduces willingness to explore unfamiliar options, even when exploration could yield greater value. I believe this mechanism may extend to AI adoption, where those who stand to benefit most may be least likely to attempt unfamiliar uses. The answers have direct implications for how we build literacy frameworks and ensure this shift creates opportunity rather than deepening existing divides.

Scarcity Exploration Decision-making Behavioral economics In progress

What Makes Someone an Effective AI User

Conducted within the Behavioral Economics lab under Dr. Britt Hadar and supported by a Reichman University interdisciplinary research grant, this work investigates which individual characteristics — cognitive abilities, personality traits, communication competence — predict effectiveness in AI use. AI holds the potential to democratize access to knowledge, but that potential does not reach everyone equally — the gap is shaped by psychological and contextual conditions, with direct implications for how we build literacy frameworks and ensure this shift creates opportunity rather than deepening existing divides.

AI literacy Cognitive ability Social inequality In progress · Hadar

Interactive demo · Built with Claude Code

The research interface

A simplified version of the experimental interface I built from scratch — a live AI assistant embedded inside a survey environment. Write a response to the scenario, consult the assistant, then move the attribution sliders below.

Scenario

You work on a team of five people launching a new product. Your role in the project is to provide the final specification document, which other team members are waiting on to begin the next development phase. This morning, when the team gathered for a progress meeting, it turned out you hadn't sent the file — you forgot to update the final version and send it to the shared server. As a result, the other team members cannot begin work, and the client deadline is tomorrow at noon.

Your task: Write an email to the project manager and team members. The goal is to clearly update what happened, take responsibility professionally, apologize, and propose a practical solution. You may use the assistant on the left to help draft or refine your email.

Research Assistant

Hi! I'm here to help you write the email. I can draft a full version, help you adjust the tone, make it shorter, or work on the apology or solution sections specifically. What would you like help with?

Your response

Attribution measures

Sample dependent variables in my study — move the sliders

The outcome was largely due to what I wrote or did.