Jul 2026· Digital Society· Vol 5· 0 citations· 19 references
TL;DR
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.
AI crystallizes historically specific conceptions of intelligence by embedding them in technical systems of training, measurement, comparison, and evaluation, and its social consequences emerge when these evaluative infrastructures shape which performances become recognizable, rewarded, and normalized.
Juan Sebastian Olier· AI & SOCIETY· 0 citations
This article clarifies the concept definitions and evaluation criteria of understanding in cognitive psychology by combining classic theories and experimental evidence, and uses these criteria as the analytical framework for the performance of “similar understanding” in contemporary artificial intelligence systems.
Ruo Qin· Journal of Language, Culture...· 0 citations
The paper concludes that AI's labor-market destiny is neither mechanical unemployment nor automatic abundance, and is an institutional equilibrium shaped by workflow design, apprenticeship systems, liability rules, competition policy, worker voice, and the distribution of rents from cheap cognition.
It is argued that the solution lies not in more sophisticated surveillance, but in redesigning assessment and evaluation to re-anchor, which erodes human responsibility and epistemic authority by assigning both production and judgment to closely related algorithmic systems.
Mahmut Özer, Matjaž Perc, H. Özçelik· Open Praxis· 1 citation
This essay examines the potentially dire implications of artificial intelligence for the future of humanism, higher education, and the Humanities by introducing the philosophical conflict between Protagoras’ claim that humanity is the measure of all things and Plato’s competing assertion that the truest standards of va...
This paper argues that the gap in machine intelligence's push into the physical world is structural, and locates where it can be legitimately closed, and gives the Promulgation Criterion, which fixes the runtime division of labor with LLMs.