But it isn’t always successful, especially when the left hemisphere is allowed to play a dominant role. He also provocatively claims that the right hemisphere is more intelligent than the left because it is open to the outside world, whereas the left hemisphere tends to be self-referential. On the positive side, I notice that AI typically does not have the delusional insistence McGilchrist attributes with the left hemisphere. AI systems weren’t built to balance these modes—they just happen to exhibit traces of both. Current approaches in AI researchSymbolic AI vs. neural AI : The old divide resembles hemispheric logic.