Continual Learning: World Models in Natural & Artificial Intelligence with Adam Safron

What does it actually mean for a machine to “understand” the world? Are today’s auto-regressive LLMs truly reasoning, or is statistical text prediction fundamentally distinct from genuine deliberative agency and causal inference? And how do we move away from brittle, post-hoc safety patches toward intrinsic, system-level alignment? This week begins Continual Learning , a new mini-series co-hosted…