Listen: Are we training AI to think too much like humans?

In this podcast, a data scientist explains how we are limiting models like ChatGPT in training them and how that’s narrowing research.

Jun 12, 2025 - 15:36
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Listen: Are we training AI to think too much like humans?
A young woman wearing a beanie puts her hand to her chin while binary code is projected on her face and the wall behind her.

James Evans believes we’re training AI to think too much like humans—and it’s holding science back.

In this episode of the Big Brains podcast, Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and data scientist, shares how our current models risk narrowing scientific exploration rather than expanding it.

He also digs into why he’s pushing for AIs that think differently from us—what he calls “cognitive aliens.”

Could these “alien minds” help us unlock hidden breakthroughs? And what would it take to build them?

Read the transcript of this episode.

Source: University of Chicago

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