We uncovered spontaneous evolution of new languages in populations of AI agents. This creates extraordinary scientific opportunities but also safety risks. New blog post with about how we created a platform for studying this safely. www.schmidtsciences.org/glossogen/

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“With same tools used to study human data & whale song, we show that culturally transmitted Bengalese finch song has statistically coherent subsequences whose distribution follows a power law. Parallels between distant species suggest that core properties of language arise via convergent evolution”🧪

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Nice new work by @simonkirby.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @kazuookanoya.bsky.social, showing how human language recruits from general cognitive tools shared across species: “Language-like statistical structure arises in learned signaling: evidence from birdsong” 🧪

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Congrats to Professor Antonella Sorace on receiving Sardinia’s Premio Sa Die! Honoured for her global research and advocacy for bilingualism and linguistic diversity—highlighting the importance of language, culture, and identity. Read more here: ppls.ed.ac.uk/sardinia-hon...

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I’ll be talking about my PhD research for the very last time at @evolangconf.bsky.social in Plovdiv next week! Come along to hear about the evolution of kin term semantics, 10:15 on Wednesday 8 April in the Small Auditorium.

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