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Philip E. Agre on AI

2 quotes from Philip E. Agre on the wall, 1997, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Erlbaum, in Bowker, Gasser, Star and Turner (eds), Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work.

1. AI is a discursive practice

   1997·#philosophy#science

   ContextWho else?

   Philip E. Agre, an MIT AI Lab PhD then at the UCLA Department of Information Studies, wrote this 1997 chapter for the volume Bridging the Great Divide on why he broke with mainstream AI research.

   Erlbaum, in Bowker, Gasser, Star and Turner (eds), Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work · Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI

2. AI has never had much of a reflexive critical practice

   1997·#science#culture

   ContextWho else?

   Philip E. Agre, a UCLA information studies scholar trained at the MIT AI Lab, opened his 1997 book chapter "Toward a Critical Technical Practice" with this account of the field he tried to reform from within.

   Erlbaum, in Bowker, Gasser, Star and Turner (eds), Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work · Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI

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