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Reaction converging arXiv.org e-Print archive Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings 2-year-olds vs. Al: who's more creative? Cognitive scientist shares the SURPRISING answer Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Ai social sciences

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Justin Hendrix J. Nathan Matias Alison Gopnik Henry Farrell Eileen Clancy 🧿 Gina Helfrich

“"A world where there is no N.S.F. funding for social science, but where the A.I. industry funds research... will skew public debate. To navigate the shock waves of A.I., we must restore social science research as an enterprise that starts from the public in…”

“In the Times this morning- Henry Farrell James Evans and I on why we desperately need the social sciences to understand AI and its impact , just at the moment when the admin is trying to destroy them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...”

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Established AI field signal Resource 12d ago
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arxiv preprint archive resource

arXiv.org e-Print archive

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Zachary Lipton Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Alison Gopnik Ben Schmidt Mandana Samiei Federico Pianzola
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Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

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“I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated reading list that I no longer have to keep in my browser like an…”

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“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}”

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Ted Underwood: I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated read…
Ted Underwood: did I come up with that idea by myself? no I did not
Karandeep Singh: Any suggestions for the other 478 tabs?
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New AI research Research 17h ago
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representational empowerment continual learning paper

What Is Worth Representing? Representational Empowerment for Continual Model Construction

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Alison Gopnik Charley Wu

“🚨New preprint with Fei Dai, @hanqizhou.bsky.social and @alisongopnik.bsky.social We extend empowerment (control over external states) by turning it inward. *Representational empowerment* asks which representations a learner should acquire and curate to solv…”

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Established Culture, work & education Development 10d ago
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Kids outlearn AI mystery article

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

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Mike Frank Alison Gopnik Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue

“Good piece on why kids beat AI at learning, with Mike Frank and me. Behind a paywall but available elsewhere. www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/24/1...”

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Established AI research Analysis 5d ago
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children vs AI creativity comparison

2-year-olds vs. Al: who's more creative? Cognitive scientist shares the SURPRISING answer

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Alison Gopnik Michiel van de Panne René Walter
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Multiple readings

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“A longer version of AI as Odysseus, fictive texts can change lives! Echoing Anthropic's persona selection paper and Murray Shanahan. humanistreview.ai/issue-1/gopn...”

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“@alisongopnik.bsky.social has a great podcast out in which she compares the exploratory intelligence of kids with AI and she explains how there are many forms of being intelligent. AI is structurally intelligent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQWD...”

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Alison Gopnik: My latest on AI vs two-year-olds - AI as a cultural technology extracting fictional characters from text. humanistreview.ai/issue-1/gopn...
david-p-reichert.bsky.social: Thanks for writing this! But what if we manage to build a "golem" from a "stone soup"? I think capability-wise your essay underestimates recent agentic AI. Coding isn't just like text, it is itself…
david-p-reichert.bsky.social: And I don't think it's fair to say that these models can only do narrowly defined tasks, or can't adapt to a changing world. There's other ways to adapt apart from just retraining the whole system …
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