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Rotenstreich’s writing didn’t explore AI but rather the television and the role it played in puncturing the membrane between public and private life. His [observations](https://www.pdcnet.org/ipq/content/ipq_1967_0007_0002_0197_0212) of the influence of technology as an agent of political and electoral change look prescient in light of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections and the 2016 Brexit campaign.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
I found Murray Shanahan's paper on
(2022) full of helpful reflections on this point:
> Humans are members of a community of language-users inhabiting a shared world, and this primal fact makes them essentially different to large language models. We can consult the world to settle our disagreements and update our beliefs. We can, so to speak, “triangulate” on objective reality.
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> Murray Shanahan – [Talking About Large Language Models](http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551)
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton
Advanced high technology is the seamless fusion of bits and atoms. It is adding intelligence to industry, rather than removing industry and leaving only information.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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