Judy Fan: Reverse Engineering the Human Cognitive Toolkit
Academic cognitive science podcast with no meaningful Australian public sector AI governance angle.
Key points
- A podcast interview with a Stanford cognitive scientist on human use of physical representations for sensemaking.
- AI is tangential - the lab uses AI methods but the focus is cognitive science and psychology.
- No direct relevance to APS AI governance, strategy, or policy work.
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"Judy Fan: Reverse Engineering the Human Cognitive Toolkit"
Source: The Gradient – Substack
Published: 22 August 2024
URL: https://thegradientpub.substack.com/p/judy-fan-reverse-engineering-the-human-cognitive-toolkit
This is a podcast episode from The Gradient featuring Judy Fan, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford who directs the Cognitive Tools Lab. The conversation covers her research into how humans use physical representations - such as sketches and prototypes - to learn, communicate, and solve problems. While her lab uses AI as one of several methodological tools, the content is primarily about cognitive science and philosophy of science rather than AI governance, capability, or policy.
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