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Acta Psychologica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (11): 1879-1884.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2025.1879

• The special issue on “Artificial Intelligence Psychology and Governance” •     Next Articles

Human advantages and psychological transformations in the era of artificial intelligence

WU Michael Shengtao1, PENG Kaiping2   

  1. 1School of Philosophy and Sociology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China;
    2Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 10084, China
  • Received:2025-09-15 Published:2025-11-25 Online:2025-09-25

Abstract: In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), the boundaries between humans and machines have become blurred, and re-understanding and developing humanity's unique advantages are increasingly prominent and urgent. Meanwhile, with the rapid development of technology and scientific paradigm, a broad psychology encompassing the minds and behaviors of humans, animals, and machines is emerging. Recent researchers have conducted a series of studies on the psychology and governance of AI, from the perspectives of impacts of AI, new human-machine relationships, AI methods, and interdisciplinary empowerment. Future psychology researchers should focus on human society and future development, and reflect on the status of humanity and human dignity under the impact of AI, especially the unique advantages derived from human evolution as well as the expansions of human nature and identity; truly master and utilize AI technologies to empower the development of psychology, making mind research on the black box of human consciousness and complex social behavior more precise and efficient, and promoting AI-based mind computation and intervention across time and space scales and personalized interventions. More important, they must consider how psychology (with strengths in studying human nature, social relations, and ethical values) could empower the development of AI, by exploring AI cognition and its comparison with humans and animals, which is critical for promoting the AI application and governance in a human-machine symbiotic society.

Key words: psychology of artificial intelligence, human advantage, intelligent cognition, personalization, technology for goodness