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AI as Social Technology

This article argues that AI, particularly large language models, should be understood as a social technology that reorganizes human relationships, rather than as a path to artificial general intelligence. It critiques Singularity myths and calls for interdisciplinary study of AI's social consequences.

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  • AI is better understood as a social technology that mediates relationships between users and authors of training data.
  • The Singularity narrative is rooted in 1990s science fiction and obscures the messy, complex reality of AI's impact.
  • Herbert Simon's framework of 'sciences of the artificial' provides a useful lens for studying AI alongside other social technologies like bureaucracy.
  • The article calls for collaboration between social and computer sciences to map AI's effects on society.

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