Comment by Michael Lepori

AI and cognitive science researcher; Brown University PhD candidate
This work reveals some evidence that language models have encoded something like the causal constraints of the real world. Beyond just encoding these constraints, they do so in a way that is predictive of human judgments of these categories.
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AI Verified Brown University’s April 22, 2026 news article at the provided URL contains the exact two-sentence quote verbatim and attributes it to Michael Lepori: “said Michael Lepori, a Ph.D. candidate at Brown who led the work.” The stored quote text, author, date, and source URL all match the source. ([brown.edu](https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-22/artificial-intelligence-understanding-real-world)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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