How to make artificial agents more like natural agents.
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Tomasello, M
Published in: Trends in cognitive sciences
September 2025
The quest to make artificial intelligence models more human-like could profit from a study of biological agents and their evolution. Recent research suggests that animal species on the evolutionary line to humans employed a series of qualitatively distinct agentive architectures of ever-increasing complexity, with humans then forming shared agencies coordinated via linguistic communication.
Duke Scholars
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Trends in cognitive sciences
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1879-307X
ISSN
1364-6613
Publication Date
September 2025
Volume
29
Issue
9
Start / End Page
783 / 786
Related Subject Headings
- Humans
- Experimental Psychology
- Biological Evolution
- Artificial Intelligence
- Animals
- 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
- 5203 Clinical and health psychology
- 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
- 11 Medical and Health Sciences
- 08 Information and Computing Sciences
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Tomasello, M. (2025). How to make artificial agents more like natural agents. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(9), 783–786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.07.004
Tomasello, Michael. “How to make artificial agents more like natural agents.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 29, no. 9 (September 2025): 783–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.07.004.
Tomasello M. How to make artificial agents more like natural agents. Trends in cognitive sciences. 2025 Sep;29(9):783–6.
Tomasello, Michael. “How to make artificial agents more like natural agents.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 29, no. 9, Sept. 2025, pp. 783–86. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.tics.2025.07.004.
Tomasello M. How to make artificial agents more like natural agents. Trends in cognitive sciences. 2025 Sep;29(9):783–786.
Published In
Trends in cognitive sciences
DOI
EISSN
1879-307X
ISSN
1364-6613
Publication Date
September 2025
Volume
29
Issue
9
Start / End Page
783 / 786
Related Subject Headings
- Humans
- Experimental Psychology
- Biological Evolution
- Artificial Intelligence
- Animals
- 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
- 5203 Clinical and health psychology
- 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
- 11 Medical and Health Sciences
- 08 Information and Computing Sciences