Events

COMMONSENSE PSYCHOLOGY IN MINDS AND MACHINES

Speaker: Moira Dillon, Assistant Professor of Psychology, NYU

Location: 19 Washington Square North

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026

How do we understand the minds of others? This talk explores the foundations of "commonsense psychology" by comparing how infants, adults, and AI systems infer intentions from actions alone. By pitting human intuition against state-of-the-art neural networks, this work tackles foundational debates across psychology, philosophy, and computer science — revealing the origins of intelligence, the divide between natural and artificial minds, and what it will take to build truly human-like, trustworthy AI.