This paper examines the resilience of human expertise in an age of Large Language Models (LLMs) and establishes...
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Decolonizing LLMs: An Ethnographic Framework for AI in African Contexts
This paper examines LLM deployment through African lenses that engage the continent’s complex social,...
Grounded Models: The Future of Sensemaking in a World of Generative AI
The promise of generative AI technologies is seductive to product leaders: frictionless research in which...
Quit Playing Language Games with My Heart; or, Conversational AI and Knowledge Sharing
This paper shares guidance for designing conversational AI based on findings from linguistic and social analysis...
Friction by Machine: How to Slow Down Reasoning with Computational Methods
This paper provides a theoretical alternative to the prevailing perception of machine learning as synonymous with...
AI Mental Models & Trust: The Promises and Perils of Interaction Design
This study offers practical solutions to ongoing issues of trust and accountability in AI, highlighting how AI...
Calibrating Agency: Human-Autonomy Teaming and the Future of Work amid Highly Automated Systems
This paper explores how the design of everyday interactions with artificial intelligence in work systems relates to broader issues of interest to social scientists and ethicists: namely human well-being and social inequality. The paper uses experience designing human interactions with highly...
A.I. among Us: Agency in a World of Cameras and Recognition Systems
This paper reports on the use and perceptions of deployed A.I. and recognition social-material assemblages in China and the USA. A kaleidoscope of “boutique” instantiations is presented to show how meanings are emerging around A.I. and recognition. A model is presented to highlight that not all...
Building Trust in AI Requires a Human at the Helm
As generative AI technology begins to touch more aspects of our work and...
The Ethnographer in the Machine: Everyday Experiences with AI-enabled Data Analysis
This paper proposes a model of researcher-AI interaction and argues that ethnographers can smartly leverage AI in...