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What We Govern as Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and The Problem of Answerability

Jul 2026 · Digital Society · Vol 5 · 0 citations · 19 references

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The concern is less with whether contemporary AI truly counts as intelligent than with why institutions increasingly treat predictive systems as if they do, and what this reclassification authorizes.

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