# 302 - Guest: Ricky Sethi, Artificial Metacognition Researcher, part 2

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Podcast: [Artificial Intelligence and You](https://stenobird.com/podcast/artificial-intelligence-and-you-381707)
Published: 2026-03-30T17:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://aiandyou.net/e/302-guest-ricky-sethi-artificial-metacognition-researcher-part-2/
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This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? We’re coming back to the interview with Ricky Sethi, Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University, and researcher into artificial metacognition, or whether and how machines can think about thinking. Ricky’s research spans fact-checking misinformation, virtual communities, and artificial metacognition, where he focuses on designing GenAI systems that can monitor, evaluate, and regulate their own reasoning. He is Director of Research for the Madsci Network, and an Adjunct Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has over 50 scholarly publications, and his work has been covered in outlets such as the Chicago Tribune, The Conversation, and Communications of the ACM. We conclude the interview by talking about his research into disinformation, measuring the emotions associated with it, how clusters of models in different roles could assess AIs for lying and implement AI safety, and how AI is impacting the job opportunities in research. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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