World Models

AI has mastered language and logic. But neuroscience shows that stripping away emotion makes reasoning collapse. If the social brain hypothesis is right, we have been optimizing for a secondary capability while ignoring the primary one.

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs and Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs are racing to build world models that understand physics and space. But nobody is building the equivalent for human behavior — even though we arguably have more data about people than about physics.