
Cognition & AI
A Good Guess Isn’t a Mind
AI can predict human behavior without proving it understands us. Here’s how parents can separate impressive performance from genuine social awareness.
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AI can predict human behavior without proving it understands us. Here’s how parents can separate impressive performance from genuine social awareness.

How children learn hidden meanings, indirect requests, and social context—and why fluent AI still takes a very different route.

AI tutors appear to understand children emotionally — but new research shows ToM in LLMs is encoded in just 0.001% of model weights. Here's why that matters for children who are building their models of social reality from statistical patterns.