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New in Science Magazine: "Large AI models are cultural and social technologies" Working with brilliant colleagues Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, and Cosma Shalizi, we challenge the prevailing narrative about AI models as autonomous agents. science.org/stoken/author-…

Causal understanding is not a point of view, it’s a point of do – aeon.co/essays/causal-… via Aeon Magazine . Lovely insightful essay by Mariel Goodu

Next keynote talk is by Alison Gopnik on causal learning in children and how it compares to machine learning!

New preprint with Aly Dayan Eliza Kosoy Yuqing Du.I really love this study, play and exploration, comparing free exploration of children adults and agents w entropy, empowerment and info gain as rewards. Plus kids private speech increases exploration. arxiv.org/abs/2503.23631

Very much looking forward to this talk and discussion about the ethics and politics of caregiving on April 15 at Stanford. ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/events/biology…

My colleague Stephen Hinshaw is running for the Association for Psychological Science President. He is a truly effective, thoughtful and fair leader and would be a great choice.

"Gopnik’s animated biography chronicles Barnes’s lifelong campaign to make art accessible to the working class." The The New Yorker recommends 'The Maverick's Museum' by past The Cullman Center Fellow Blake Gopnik! newyorker.com/best-books-2025

A powerful event with Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley & Juliana Bidadanure, NYU Law on why care—vital to human thriving—is still invisible in systems built for contracts, not connection. ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/events/biology…

Think LMMs can reason like a 3-year-old? Think again! Our Kid-Inspired Visual Analogies benchmark reveals where young children still win: ey242.github.io/kiva.github.io/ Catch our #ICLR2025 poster today to see where models still fall short! Thurs. April 24 3-5:30 pm Halls 3 + 2B #312

Great conversation about caregiving with Ann-Marie Slaughter on this mornings KQED forum. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ali… You can read the special Daedalus issue too here. amacad.org/daedalus/socia…

I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

A great conversation about caregiving throughout life from childhood through elderhood with Laura Carstensen, the terrific specialist in aging. youtube.com/watch?v=HxKAIF…

Fascinating preprint with our "blicket detector" paradigm from Chen et al at NYU&Mila. LLM's make the same causal inference mistakes that adults make but 4 year olds don't! Models are trained on adult data, kids figure it out for themselves. im-ant.github.io/publications/g…

Alison Gopnik Thank you for the shoutout Alison :) We actually just arXiv-ed the paper. Attaching the tweet-print below which has the arXiv link! x.com/AntChen_/statu…

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now o'clock: Join me this week with cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik (Alison Gopnik) to ask whether AI is actually an intelligent agent, or instead whether it should be viewed as a piece of cultural technology. What in the world is a piece of

Next Thursday 5/29, 7:00pm at Johns Hopkins: Alison Gopnik Alison Gopnik gives the Distinguished Lecture in Natural Philosophy on "The Evolution of Human Intelligences: Exploit, Explore, Empower." Open to all! naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/event/third-an…

Very much looking forward to this!

About to begin at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore - happening right on the harbor: naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-philos… David Chalmers Alison Gopnik Anil Seth Sean Carroll