Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman Ep139 "What does alignment look like in a society of AIs?" with Danielle Perszyk
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Feb 2, 2026 Danielle Perszyk, a cognitive scientist who leads human-computer interaction at Amazon’s AGI Lab. She explores intelligence as social alignment. They discuss communicative drive, neural synchrony, and how conversation stabilizes shared concepts. She outlines building agents that model minds, coordinate with one another, and support personalized learning while avoiding human flaws.
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Intelligence As A Social Emergent Property
- Intelligence often emerges between minds rather than inside a single head.
- Human thought is shaped by social tools like language, symbols, and shared concepts.
Evolutionary Drive To Align Minds
- Humans evolved strong drive to represent and align other minds for cooperation and learning.
- Infants use joint attention and prompting to bootstrap labels and knowledge from caretakers.
Rethinking AGI Benchmarks
- Many AGI efforts benchmark to human intelligence but miss that intelligence is social.
- Perszyk argues intelligence doesn't reside in isolated machines but emerges through interaction.