Dr. Jurgis Karpus

Personal information

Jurgis Karpus completed his PhD in philosophy at King’s College London, after which he joined the Cognition, Values, Behaviour and the Crowd Cognition research groups at LMU Munich.

Research interests

His research lies at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and psychology. In particular, he is focused on rational choice and game theory. He is primarily interested in the modes of reasoning by which we arrive at personal decisions when we interact with fellow humans and autonomous artificial agents.

Current projects

• Human-AI interaction. I investigate whether we are as likely to trust, take risks, and cooperate with artificial intelligence (AI) systems as we do with fellow humans.
• Deception in competitive advice-giving. I study the emergence of strategic deception in advice-giving when multiple advisers compete for our attention.
• Nudge. I evaluate when and whether nudge-based policies are the most effective and appropriate tools to influence our choices.
• Team reasoning. I am developing the theory of team reasoning to explain why and when we cooperate with others.

Selected publications

1. Karpus, J., Shirai, R., Verba, J. T., Schulte, R., Weigert, M., Bahrami, B., Watanabe, K., and Deroy, O. (2025) Human cooperation with artificial agents varies across countries. Scientific Reports 15, 10000.
2. Karpus, J. and Strasser, A. (2025) Persons and their digital replicas. Philosophy & Technology 38, 25.
3. Shen, C., Karpus, J., Kosch, T., Fernandes, D., Mello, B., Welsch, R., Villa, S. (2025) The impact of asymmetric AI assistance on decision-making in social dilemmas: a study on human augmentation in economic games. Augmented Humans 2025, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference Proceedings (available soon).
4. Bacciu, D., Ambriola, V., Bahrami, B., Ceni, A., Cossu, A., De Caro, V., Santina, C. D., Deroy, O., Gallicchio, C., Guidotti, R., Hauert, S., Jones, S., Karpus, J., Lee, S., Liu, J., Lomonaco, V., Meertens, N., Milner, E., Monreale, A., Nakahara, R. P., Ramirez, M., Shahabi, E., and Stölzle, M. (2025) EMERGE—Emergent awareness from minimal collectives. In: Secchi, C. and Marconi, L. (eds.) European Robotics Forum 2024. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 32. Springer.
5. Moll, M., Karpus, J., and Bahrami, B. (2023) Do artificial agents reproduce human strategies in the advisers’ game? In: Grothe, O., Nickel, S., Rebennack, S., and Stein, O. (eds.) Operations Research Proceedings 2022. Springer, 603–609.
6. Schmauder, C., Karpus, J., Moll, M., Bahrami, B., and Deroy, O. (2023) Algorithmic nudging: the need for an interdisciplinary oversight. Topoi 42, 799–807.
7. Kurvers, R. H. J., Hertz, U., Karpus, J., Balode, M. P., Bertrand, J., Binmore, K., and Bahrami, B. (2021) Strategic disinformation outperforms honesty in competition for social influence. iScience 24, 103505.
8. Karpus, J. and Radzvilas, M. (2021) Game theory and rational reasoning. In: Heilmann, C. and Reiss, J. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. Routledge, 99–112.
9. Radzvilas, M. and Karpus, J. (2021) Team reasoning without a hive mind. Research in Economics 75, 345–353.
10. Karpus, J., Krüger, A., Verba, J. T., Bahrami, B., and Deroy, O. (2021) Algorithm exploitation: humans are keen to exploit benevolent AI. iScience 24, 102679.
11. Beraldo, S. and Karpus, J. (2021) Nudging to donate organs: do what you like or like what we do? Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 24, 329–340.
12. Karpus, J. and Radzvilas, M. (2018) Team reasoning and a measure of mutual advantage in games. Economics and Philosophy 34, 1–30.
13. Karpus, J. and Gold, N. (2017) Team reasoning: theory and evidence. In: Kiverstein, J. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind. Routledge, 400–417.