Faculty Directory

Assistant Professor of Marketing and International Business

Education

PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018)

MSc University of Oxford (2012)

BS Stanford University (2009)

Academic Expertise

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2024

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Common Sense Machines since 2020

Fellow at Harvard University, 2018-2020

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Diffeo (Acquired by Salesforce), 2012-2019

Summer Associate at McKinsey & Company, 2010

Selected Publications

1. “Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted“

   Journal Article:McManus, Ryan M; Fong, Helen Padilla; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Young, Liane; , (2024). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 113, pp. 104615.
2. “Emotion prediction as computation over a generative theory of mind“

   Journal Article:Houlihan, Sean Dae; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Hewitt, Luke B; Tenenbaum, Joshua B; Saxe, Rebecca; , (2023). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 381(2251), pp. 20220047.
3. “Too Many Cooks: Bayesian Inference for Coordinating Multi‐Agent Collaboration“

   Journal Article:Wu*, Sarah A; Wang*, Rose E; Evans, James A; Tenenbaum, Joshua B; Parkes, David C; Kleiman‐Weiner, Max; , (2021). Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol. 13(2), pp. 414-432.
4. “Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes“

   Journal Article:Awad, Edmond; Levine, Sydney; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Dsouza, Sohan; Tenenbaum, Joshua B; Shariff, Azim; Bonnefon, Jean-François; Rahwan, Iyad; , (2020). Nature human behaviour, Vol. 4(2), pp. 134-143.
5. “What we owe to family: The impact of special obligations on moral judgment“

   Journal Article:McManus, Ryan M; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Young, Liane; , (2020). Psychological Science, Vol. 31(3), pp. 227-242.
6. “The logic of universalization guides moral judgment“

   Journal Article:Levine, Sydney; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Schulz, Laura; Tenenbaum, Joshua; Cushman, Fiery; , (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 117(42), pp. 26158-26169.
7. “People make the same Bayesian judgment they criticize in others“

   Journal Article:Cao, Jack; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Banaji, Mahzarin R; , (2019). Psychological Science, Vol. 30(1), pp. 20-31.
8. “Theory of minds: Understanding behavior in groups through inverse planning“

   Journal Article:Shum*, Michael; Kleiman-Weiner*, Max; Littman, Michael L; Tenenbaum, Joshua B; , (2019). Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence, Vol. 33(1), pp. 6163-6170.
9. “Finding friend and foe in multi-agent games“

   Journal Article:Serrino*, Jack; Kleiman-Weiner*, Max; Parkes, David C; Tenenbaum, Joshua B; , (2019). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 32,
10. “Towards formal definitions of blameworthiness, intention, and moral responsibility“

    Journal Article:Halpern, Joseph; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; , (2018). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 32(1),
11. “Learning a commonsense moral theory“

    Journal Article:Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Saxe, Rebecca; Tenenbaum, Joshua B;, (2017). Cognition,
12. “Statistically inaccurate and morally unfair judgements via base rate intrusion“

    Journal Article:Cao, Jack; Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Banaji, Mahzarin R; , (2017). Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 1(10), pp. 738-742.

Honors and Awards

Modeling Prize for Higher-Level Cognition, Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Best Paper Award, Cooperative AI Workshop, NeurIPS, 2020

Glushko Dissertation Prize, Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Best Paper Award, Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, 2017

William James Prize, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2017

Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2016

Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2011

Fulbright Research Fellowship (China), 2011

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009

Marshall Scholar, 2009

Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 2008