Infants’ Social Knowledge (Psychology)

One area of human competence, as yet unmatched by machines, is “social knowledge” — commonsense reasoning about the goals, preferences, and actions of others. Interestingly, human infants are able to make rich and abstract generalizations about their social environment as early as their first year of life. In this seminar we explore infants’ social knowledge and ask how the abilities of infants can inform the design of socially aware AI systems.