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AI social technology framework essay

AI as Social Technology

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Justin Hendrix Henry Farrell Karen Gregory Carlos Scheidegger Chris Marsden

“and this with Cosma is in part about how the two ideas fit together knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...”

“(Sorry, that's "AI as Social Technology": knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...)”

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Carlos Scheidegger: My best guess is, take equal measures of: - Francis Spufford's Red Plenty - Shalizi and Ferrell's LLMs as Social Technology then interpolate. Something like a tech-forward rendering of "knowledge p…
Carlos Scheidegger: (Sorry, that's "AI as Social Technology": knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...)
Pwnallthethings: they'd have *loved* it. Dumped ungodly amounts of energy and labor into making it pervasive
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2 experts · 4 posts · 19d ago
Henry Farrell Luis Villa
Henry Farrell: This flows from Cosma's and my riff on Ben Recht - there is no mathematical framework for optimizing complex trade-offs, and hence systematically improving AI's ability to do that stuff beyond huma…
Luis Villa: have you seen median adults read the signage at any modern art museum? in visual art, that’s essentially where we’ve been since the 1950s.
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