Critique of World Model

E Xing, M Deng, J Hou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05169, 2025 - arxiv.org
… Can a single artificial intelligence (AI) system perform all these tasks? Each of these … We
call such a mental model a World Model. Specifically, a World Model (WM) is a generative …

Learning to model the world: A survey of world models in artificial intelligence

J Dong, Q Lyu, B Liu, X Wang, W Liang, D Zhang, J Tu… - 2026 - preprints.org
… Instead of reacting solely to instantaneous observations, a world model seeks to learn
internal representations of the environment that capture its underlying structure [7,8], temporal …

World model learning and inference

K Friston, RJ Moran, Y Nagai, T Taniguchi, H Gomi… - Neural Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
… Lastly, we review recent progress in creating human-like intelligence by using novel … to
create human-like artificial intelligent machines and to understand intelligence in the context of …

Simulating the visual world with artificial intelligence: A roadmap

J Yue, Z Huang, Z Chen, X Wang, P Wan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
… In this survey, we define a physical world model as a digital engine that encodes comprehensive
world knowledge to simulate real-world dynamics according to intrinsic physical laws. …

Between world models and model worlds: on generality, agency, and worlding in machine learning

K Mitrokhov - AI & SOCIETY, 2025 - Springer
… uptake of the world model notion. As I will discuss further in the text, world model becomes
a … for the “mutual contamination of human and artificial intelligence”—I propose to further his …

World model for robot learning: A comprehensive survey

B Hou, G Li, J Jia, T An, X Guo, S Leng… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2026 - journals.sagepub.com
… Under this formulation, we use world model in a functional … does not qualify as a world model
in our sense simply because … is the action-conditioned world model, since visually plausible …

… Principles and Laws of Artificial Intelligence, World Model, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in Future Intelligence Networking: Paradigms, Architectures, and …

D Zhang, W Shi, X Jia - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2026 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… While numerous surveys have reviewed topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven …
Moreover, we analyze the world model-driven generalization and information diffusion in IN. …

Beyond World Models: Rethinking Understanding in AI Models

T Gupta, D Pruthi - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026 - ojs.aaai.org
… path to artificial general intelligence makes … world model research, we believe such analysis
contributes to ongoing discussions about the nature of understanding in artificial intelligence…

Security of World-Model-Based Embodied AI: A Lifecycle of Threats, Defenses, and Evaluation

F Liu, Z Chen, H Tan, Y Meng, G Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2026 - arxiv.org
… Embodied artificial intelligence is moving from reactive perception and scripted control
toward agents that can predict, simulate, and evaluate possible futures before acting. This …

S-AI-WorldModel: Regulated Canonicalization of the World Model

S Slaoui - Available at SSRN 7307258, 2026 - papers.ssrn.com
… Artificial Intelligence paradigm dedicated to the domain of world modeling. S-AI-WorldModel
formalizes the world model as a … The architecture introduces a fourcomponent World Model …