Henry Farrell & Cosma Rohilla Shalizi: AI as Social Technology"In the rest of this paper, we briefly situate AI in the historic context of the Long Industrial Revolution. Next, we explore the relationship between social technologies and coarse-grainings or abstractions, emphasizing their lossiness and consequences for power relations between different social groups. That allows us both to describe the apparent strengths and limits of actually-existing AI and start applying Simon's ideas to th...

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