The SocialAI school: a framework leveraging developmental psychology toward artificial socio-cultural agents.

ABSTRACT: Developmental psychologists have long-established socio-cognitive abilities as fundamental to human intelligence and development. These abilities enable individuals to enter, learn from, and contribute to a surrounding culture. This drives the process of cumulative cultural evolution, which is responsible for humanity's most remarkable achievements. AI research on social interactive agents mostly concerns the emergence of culture in a multi-agent setting (often without a strong grounding in developmental psychology). We argue that AI research should be informed by psychology and study socio-cognitive abilities enabling to enter a culture as well. We draw inspiration from the work of Michael Tomasello and Jerome Bruner, who studied socio-cognitive development and emphasized th

SUBMITTER: Kovac G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496287 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature