Mind behind machine: How human self-understanding shapes AGI’s future

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The research highlights the philosophical urgency of AI development. As global efforts to achieve general intelligence accelerate, the study calls for renewed dialogue between computer science, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and ethics. Without this interdisciplinary foundation, AGI could reproduce the same blind spots and inequalities that already mark digital capitalism.

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A new study published in AI & Society argues that the kind of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) humanity builds will depend heavily on which theory of mind it adopts. The research titled “AGI Imagined: How Is AGI Configured by the Theories of Mind,” warns that divergent assumptions about what a “mind” is could lead to radically different AI architectures, some capable of empathy and ethical understanding, others locked into narrow computational logic.