ECCE Workshop on Cognition and LLMs

*1st ECCE Workshop on Cognition and Large Language Models*

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and *Large Language Models* (LLMs) are 
completely changing how work (and education) is performed, yet we do not 
know the long-term effects that LLMs may have on humanity, work, 
education, psychological wellbeing and cognition. LLMs arguably pass the 
Turing test and provide a level of general artificial intelligence that 
is capable of performing different kinds of tasks. Whilst LLMs have 
modelled natural language, they have emergent capabilities (e.g. 
reasoning, arithmetic, and passing benchmarks/exams from various domains 
such as medicine and law). LLMs can also be used for vibe designing, 
vide coding and for using ‘AI as a judge’ etc. We need to understand the 
capabilities of LLMs and how people interact with them. In addition, we 
should investigate the effect LLMs may have on our cognitive 
abilities**(attention, working memory etc.), for example through AI 
over-reliance, automation bias and ‘cognitive offloading’. This workshop 
includes a brief plenary talk, flash talks from participants (if they 
wish), and two interactive activities.The goals are to create future 
research projects for collaboration.*Relevant topics*: 
user-LLM-interaction, the effects of LLMs on human cognition and 
wellbeing, applications of LLMs (e.g. AI companions, interactive 
assistants etc.), cognitive skills, personality and psychoanalysis of 
LLMs (for example, research related to ‘AI scheming’/manipulation, ‘AI 
consciousness’ etc.).

*Date:*Tuesday 16 September 2026 (afternoon, 3hours)

*Location:*Siena, Italy

*Plenary Speaker*: Antonio Rizzo (author of Thinking with Artificial 
Intelligence)

*Format:*In-person only

*Publications:*CEUR submission (short papers only)

*Website URL*: https://ecce2026.unisi.it/workshop/



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