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Review: A Cognitive Neuroscientist's Take on How AI Models Think

Author Christopher Summerfield engages seriously with skeptics who claim that large language models are really thinking.

Brian Doherty | From the May 2026 issue

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These Strange New Minds is a comprehensive book for lay readers wondering how large language models (LLMs) work and how they might help or harm human culture.

Its author, the cognitive neuroscientist Christopher Summerfield, faces an inherent challenge: The pace of change in AI makes it difficult........

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