Monday, 7 July, 2025

Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon Pioneered Human‑Centered AI by Modeling Our Mistakes

Herbert A. Simon, Nobel-winning economist, laid the groundwork for AI decades before ChatGPT by integrating our cognitive flaws into early computer models. His concept of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing" revealed humans settle for "good enough" solutions. Partnering on the Logic Theory Machine and General Problem Solver in the 1950s, Simon infused AI with realistic, heuristic-based decision-making—shaping modern systems that reflect actual human thinking.