SMRTR AIAug 20, 2026Quanta Magazine

Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?

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When AI answers a question, is it truly reasoning or just mimicking reasoning? Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute argues we lack proper ways to measure machine intelligence, which matters because the answer determines how much we can trust AI, how closely we must monitor it, and what its real impact will be.

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