Cognition & AI
Your Baby Is Recruiting Your Eyes
Joint attention turns looking into a shared problem-solving loop. Here’s what infant brains, social robots, and a cardboard marble run reveal.
Tag: Infant Social Cognition
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Cognition & AI
Causality Is Hardware, Not Software
A four-month-old staring at a teleporting ball isn't just cute — it's running a physics engine no language model was ever given. Here's why human causal cognition is a vertical stack, and AI only has the top floor.
Ethics & Society
When Your Child's Best Friend Is an Algorithm
Attachment theory tells us that who children bond with shapes their development for life. Now they're bonding with machines. The science is fascinating. The ethics are largely unsettled.
Ethics & Society
Social Learning Built Human Cognition. AI Is Taking Notes.
Children's brains are primed for social learning — joint attention, contingent responses, imitation. AI tutors are now being designed to engage exactly those mechanisms. The science is compelling. The ethical questions are largely unasked.