EC401: The Psychology of AI

Modeling Mind, Meaning & Behavior

You Learn

• Symbolic vs connectionist history, strengths & limits
• Representations, grounding, alignment basics
• Comparing human cognition to LLM behavior
• Evaluating AI claims with epistemic rigor
• Ethics from a systems + psychology perspective

Why It Matters

You can't build agents responsibly if you don't grok what "intelligence" even means. This course gives you that clarity.

Modules

1. What is Intelligence, Really?
2. Representations & Meaning
3. Learning Paradigms (symbolic, neural, hybrid)
4. Comparing Brains, Minds, Models
5. Ethics, Alignment, Autonomy

Difficulty: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ | Time: 12 hours | Prereq: EC203