AI Needs Internal 'Social World Models' for Social Intelligence, Says MIT Researcher
xuanalogue · x · 2026-08-12
At a Simons Institute workshop, MIT's Paul Liang argued that for AIs to achieve genuine social intelligence, they must develop internal 'social world models' of people and social interactions, extending beyond just physical world models.
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