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Book Review: The AI Mirror
December 2, 2025FILED UNDER: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Book Reviews, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
If we outsource decision-making to AI and spend all our time chatting with chatbots rather than with fellow humans, we are unlikely to develop the civic skills that we need for coordinated collective action.
What’s It Like to Trust an LLM: The Devolution of Trust Psychology?
November 16, 2025FILED UNDER: Social Implications of Technology
The use of LLMs by people lacking expertise and experience, and for purposes they were not originally intended for, is, on the one hand, a fine example of technological generativity; on the other hand, it is having profound and consequential effects on trust relationships.
Do Individuals Matter in the Shape and Direction of Technological Change?
November 5, 2025The author examines the premise that individuals and teams of individuals matter decisively to technological change, and that biographies matter in a way that the prevailing social shaping paradigm either ignores, misunderstands, trivializes, or caricatures.
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