The Research We Need to Understand A.I. Is Falling Apart

By Henry J. FarrellAlison Gopnik and James Evans

The authors are social scientists.

The Industrial Revolution was the birthplace of social science as we know it. Entire disciplines such as sociology, political science and economics came into being to analyze enormous social challenges and guide public debate on how to respond. Other social sciences such as psychology and cognitive science followed to study closely how the effects of this revolution were changing us at the individual level.

As we face a new revolution ushered in by artificial intelligence, these disciplines........

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