Thijs Baan on AIs understand

Thijs Baan

Applied psychologist and lead engineer at Info Support, specializing in the human factors of AI and agentic systems.

Calling AI “basically human” doesn’t just misrepresent what the system is. It systematically removes the oversight that the gap between human and AI actually requires.

AI Verified (Apr 17, 2026)

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Thijs Baan, “AI doesn't understand, your brain just pretends it does,” The Behavioral Engineer, April 17, 2026.

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AI Verified The quote rejects treating AI as human-equivalent and says doing so misrepresents the system. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 19d ago

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AI Verified Rejecting AI as human-equivalent supports the recorded 'against' answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 19d ago

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AI Verified Thijs Baan's Substack article contains the quoted sentence on AI anthropomorphism and oversight. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 19d ago

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