MachinePsychology
Machine intelligence is never encountered in a vacuum. People build systems of trust around the meanings they assign to machine behavior.
Who gets to decide when machine behavior becomes intelligence?
Core question
How does machine behavior become intelligence?
Machine Psychology studies how machine behavior becomes recognized as intelligence.
Who gets to define intelligence when the subject is a machine?
Which behaviors become treated as evidence of capability or agency?
How does model behavior become public authority?
When do people begin to treat machine output as judgment?
Machine Psychology studies how AI intelligence earns social meaning and public authority.
Definition
How people decide which machine behaviors count as intelligence.
Measurement
How evaluation culture shapes what gets recognized as capability.
Authority
How model behavior becomes trusted, deferred to, or treated as agency.
Read the interface
Study the places where machine behavior is presented as confidence, competence, or judgment.
Map the norms
Track how evaluation practices and public narratives define what machines appear to be.
Observe interpretation
Study how people assign meaning to machine behavior after repeated use.