Predicted

How AI Is Restructuring Social Life
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-41633-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Co-Opting AI

How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future.

The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organize our most intimate lives and our interactions with the most fundamental institutions of society, from government agencies to banks and schools. In these linkages are embedded assumptions about who we are, what we can do, and where we belong.

In Predicted, Mona Sloane offers a pragmatic framework for understanding these transformations around prediction, classification, and linearity, proposing that we think about AI as a social arrangement that we coproduce. Drawing on over a decade of empirical research and real-world examples, this book invites us to see AI for what it is: deeply social, deeply political, and open to change. Clear-eyed and provocative, Predicted is a call to reclaim deliberations about progress and innovation as a public good and to ensure that the futures we chart are the ones we choose—together.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloane, Mona

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents1 The Prediction Paradigm2 The Black Box of AI3 The Infrastructure of AI4 The Business of AI5 The Problems of AI6 The Guardrails of AI7 Staying Together in the Age of AIAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Sociologist Mona Sloane is Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She leads the Sloane Lab, convenes the Co-Opting AI public speaker series, and is Technology Editor at Public Books.