Dr. Jurgis Karpus

Jurgis Karpus
Dr. Jurgis Karpus
Postdoctoral Researcher
Building Hohe Schule | Room: HS-207

Vita

Jurgis Karpus completed his PhD in philosophy at King’s College London. Before joining the Philosophy and Ethics of Digitization group at KU, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Munich Interactive Intelligence Initiative at LMU Munich, where he remains affiliated.

Research interests

Jurgis Karpus works at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and psychology, with a particular focus on rational choice, game theory, and AI ethics. He is especially interested in the modes of reasoning by which we arrive at personal decisions when we interact with fellow humans and automated artificial agents.

Selected publications

  • AI’s assigned gender affects human-AI cooperation (link)
    with Sepideh Bazazi and Taha Yasseri—iScience 2025
  • Human cooperation with artificial agents varies across countries (link)
    with Risako Shirai, Julia Tovar Verba, Rickmer Schulte, Maximilian Weigert, Bahador Bahrami, Katsumi Watanabe, and Ophelia Deroy—Scientific Reports 2025
  • Persons and their digital replicas (link)
    with Anna Strasser—Philosophy & Technology 2025
  • Algorithmic nudging: the need for an interdisciplinary oversight (link)
    with Christian Schmauder, Maximilian Moll, Bahador Bahrami, and Ophelia Deroy—Topoi 2023
  • Strategic disinformation outperforms honesty in competition for social influence (link)
    with Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers, Uri Hertz, Marta P. Balode, Bertrand Jayles, Ken Binmore, and Bahador Bahrami—iScience 2021

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