"A must-read for students and general readers alike. Mona Sloane provides a terrific guided tour of AI as a technology along with a compelling new framework for understanding its appeal as a social infrastructure. A real contribution."--Allison Pugh, author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World"A cautionary tale about the social factors that shape AI and, in turn, the societies that have embraced it, written by one of the rising stars in the field. An important, even necessary book."--Eric Klinenberg, author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed"Locating the prediction paradigm as fundamental to the artificial intelligence project, Sloane provides a technically informed, clear account of the assumptions and operations that treat occurrences of correlation as signs of causation."--Lucy Suchman, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions"Sloane brings a calm, clear perspective to the often panicked and hyperbolic discussions of AI. In Predicted, she shows how AI remakes the very infrastructure of society. While AI mediation is ubiquitous and central to a new system based on prediction, anticipation, and instant response, Sloane reminds us that AI is only real because we make it so, and we have the capacity to change it."--Craig Calhoun, coauthor of Degenerations of Democracy
