Beth Anne Helgason studies machine moral psychology. Her research examines the moral behavior of large language models, focusing on honesty, trustworthiness, and moral judgment and decision making in AI systems. She brings methods from experimental psychology to the study of AI behavior. Her ongoing work builds on her research in human moral psychology, where she studies dishonesty and social influence in the moral domain. Past projects have examined the moral psychology of misinformation, how social information shapes ethical behavior, and moral change.
Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Organization Science, and has been featured in the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review. She earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from London Business School, and her B.Sc. in Psychology and M.Sc. in Management from Queen's University, Canada.
Professor Helgason teaches Business Ethics to Master's in Asset Management, MBA, and EMBA students at Yale School of Management.
