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Centaur: AI that Thinks Like Us—and Could Help Explain How We Think

  • Researchers at Helmholtz Munich developed an AI model called Centaur that predicts human behavior across various psychological experiments, published on July 2, 2025.
  • The team assembled Psych-101, a dataset with over 10 million decisions from 160 experiments involving more than 60,000 participants, to train Centaur.
  • Centaur outperformed decades-old specialized models, accurately predicting behavior even under changed stories, modified task structures, and new domains.
  • Binz explained that they have developed a method capable of forecasting human responses across various scenarios articulated in everyday language—essentially serving as a virtual testing environment—while Schulz emphasized the significant possibilities this approach presents.
  • This AI breakthrough could revolutionize fields like marketing, education, and mental health but raises important ethical questions about privacy and responsible use.
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Can artificial intelligence calculate how people behave? In a study, the newly developed AI model Centaur came to the right conclusion in more than 60 percent of cases. Is this possible in real life?

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The model should be potentially useful for the development and review of theories in psychology

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Nature broke the news in United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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