
Predicted
How AI Is Restructuring Social Life
Mona Sloane(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-0-520-41634-5 (ISBN)
Description
How AI is rewiring our social fabric-and how we can better shape our future.
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organize our most intimate lives and our interactions with the most fundamental institutions of society, from government agencies to banks and schools. In these linkages are embedded assumptions about who we are, what we can do, and where we belong.
In Predicted, Mona Sloane offers a pragmatic framework for understanding these transformations around prediction, classification, and linearity, proposing that we think about AI as a social arrangement that we coproduce. Drawing on over a decade of empirical research and real-world examples, this book invites us to see AI for what it is: deeply social, deeply political, and open to change. Clear-eyed and provocative, Predicted is a call to reclaim deliberations about progress and innovation as a public good and to ensure that the futures we chart are the ones we choose-together.
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organize our most intimate lives and our interactions with the most fundamental institutions of society, from government agencies to banks and schools. In these linkages are embedded assumptions about who we are, what we can do, and where we belong.
In Predicted, Mona Sloane offers a pragmatic framework for understanding these transformations around prediction, classification, and linearity, proposing that we think about AI as a social arrangement that we coproduce. Drawing on over a decade of empirical research and real-world examples, this book invites us to see AI for what it is: deeply social, deeply political, and open to change. Clear-eyed and provocative, Predicted is a call to reclaim deliberations about progress and innovation as a public good and to ensure that the futures we chart are the ones we choose-together.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
5 b-w line art
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-41634-5 (9780520416345)
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Sociologist Mona Sloane is Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She leads the Sloane Lab, convenes the Co-Opting AI public speaker series, and is Technology Editor at Public Books.
Content
Contents
1 The Prediction Paradigm
2 The Black Box of AI
3 The Infrastructure of AI
4 The Business of AI
5 The Problems of AI
6 The Guardrails of AI
7 Staying Together in the Age of AI
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1 The Prediction Paradigm
2 The Black Box of AI
3 The Infrastructure of AI
4 The Business of AI
5 The Problems of AI
6 The Guardrails of AI
7 Staying Together in the Age of AI
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index