HUTE Research and InsightsResearch reports and articles on social intelligence, human behavior and AIhttps://hute.world/2026-10-25T00:00:00ZHUTE Researchhttps://hute.world/The State of Social Intelligence in Artificial Intelligence: Capabilities, Limitations, and Open Problemshttps://hute.world/research/publications/state-of-social-intelligence-in-ai2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZA literature review of social intelligence in AI: theory of mind, emotion, pragmatics, multi-agent behavior, evaluation limits, culture, safety risks and open problems.Toward a Framework for Evaluating Human Understanding in AI Systemshttps://hute.world/research/publications/framework-for-evaluating-human-understanding-in-ai2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZA proposed framework for evaluating whether AI understands people: construct validity, psychology-grounded tasks, culture, expert grading and benchmark integrity.Human Expertise as Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Artificial Intelligencehttps://hute.world/research/publications/human-expertise-as-infrastructure-for-ai2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZHow human expertise enters AI: SFT, preferences, RL, rubrics, production traces, provenance, consent, privacy and contributor pay. A literature review.Building Better Benchmarks for Emotional and Social Reasoninghttps://hute.world/blog/better-benchmarks-for-emotional-and-social-reasoning2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZWhy most AI benchmarks for social and emotional reasoning are weaker than their scores suggest, and eight design rules for building ones that measure what they claim.How Human Psychology Can Inform Better AI Systemshttps://hute.world/blog/how-human-psychology-can-inform-better-ai-systems2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZPsychology gives AI researchers tested tasks, measurement theory and warnings about whose behavior counts as normal. How to borrow from it carefully.Human Expertise, Training Data, and the Economics of AI Developmenthttps://hute.world/blog/human-expertise-training-data-and-the-economics-of-ai-development2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZWhere human knowledge enters AI, why curated expert data can beat volume, how data scarcity and model collapse matter, and what consent and fair pay require.Reinforcement Learning for Socially Intelligent AI Agentshttps://hute.world/blog/reinforcement-learning-for-socially-intelligent-agents2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZHow reinforcement learning from human feedback, verifiers and multi-agent training apply to social behavior, and why rewards for tact, consent and honesty are hard to write.The Future of Human Connection in an AI-Powered Worldhttps://hute.world/blog/the-future-of-human-connection-in-an-ai-powered-world2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZRelationships matter for health and opportunity. How AI could help people meet and stay connected, where it could erode connection, and the principles that keep it human.The Future of Human-AI Relationships and Personal AI Agentshttps://hute.world/blog/the-future-of-human-ai-relationships-and-personal-agents2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZPersonal AI agents will write and schedule for us. What research says about AI-mediated communication, companion chatbots and trust, and how to keep humans in charge.The Next Frontier of AI: From Language Intelligence to Social Intelligencehttps://hute.world/blog/from-language-intelligence-to-social-intelligence2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZAI moved from predicting text to following instructions to acting as an agent. The next step, handling people, memory and multi-party situations, is a different problem.Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: What Can AI Actually Understand?https://hute.world/blog/theory-of-mind-in-large-language-models2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZLanguage models now pass many false-belief tests, yet fail small variations. What the studies show, why they disagree, and how to read claims about AI understanding.What Are AI Production Traces, and Why Do They Matter?https://hute.world/blog/what-are-ai-production-traces2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZA production trace is the record of an AI doing real work. Why traces reveal what benchmarks miss, how they become training tasks, and what rights and privacy limits apply.What Is Social Intelligence in Artificial Intelligence?https://hute.world/blog/what-is-social-intelligence-in-artificial-intelligence2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZSocial intelligence in AI is the ability to understand and act well among people. Here is what it includes, how it differs from sounding friendly, and how it is measured.Why AI Needs to Understand Human Behaviorhttps://hute.world/blog/why-ai-needs-to-understand-human-behavior2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZAI now writes, schedules and mediates between people. Without a model of how people behave, it misreads intent, flatters instead of helping, and fails at real tasks.Why Cultural Context Matters in Artificial Intelligencehttps://hute.world/blog/why-cultural-context-matters-in-ai2026-10-25T00:00:00Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZAI models reflect particular cultures. What studies show about Western-skewed emotion, opinion and values in language models, and what better evaluation requires.