Henry Farrell et al - on large AI models

A new article in Science, with Alison Gopnik, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans, and, well, me.

Large Al models are cultural and social technologies

Our central point here is not just that these technological innovations, like all other innovations, will have cultural and social consequences. Rather we argue that Large Models are themselves best understood as a particular type of cultural and social technology.

Blog link: https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-ai-models-are-cultural-and

Paywalled Science link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9819