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I submitted my dissertation to external examiners last week. It sort of occurred to me several days later that this was probably a meaningful milestone. I have written something (hopefully) minimal edits from my second doctoral dissertation. Cool. AI as a concept is central to the dissertation, and one of the threads I set up in the literature chapter is the idea of instability in meaning of emerging technologies, which get stabilized at the social level. AI can be so many things because people imagine it to be many things. And so what is AI? Or perhaps more accurately, what do people imagine AI to be? I'd like to argue for systems characterized by learning , autonomy , and communicativeness . I'm reflecting on a vignette I captured from attending a meeting between the developers and people from the hospital. It didn't make it into the dissertation, but it stuck with me. One of the developers describes some cascading prioritization logic that was built into the OR scheduli...

Samer recently posted about our just-accepted Strategic Organization paper on LinkedIn. The usual likes, congrats, and promises to read followed. Some comments engaged with the content of the paper (he linked to the pre-print, as I have here) and discussion ensued. Got me thinking, here we have professionals who collaborate with each other, engaging in public discourse about problems in the world while using shared and similarly embedded core vocabularies (same words same meanings). Sounds very much like my operationalization of a research conversation . Interesting. Feels different, somehow, from old academic twitter. Maybe because we imbue LinkedIn with some institutional meanng, its where jobs are posted, its more "serious" than twitter was, its more like a conference than a public square.  Less hoi polloi more formal strutting. Interesting. More to the point of the subject line of this post, I’m referring to Joel Baum’s comment on Samer's post and the subsequent rep...