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Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press,…

10/16/2026 • 40 min

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 fundam… Play episode

Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, an…
"The humanities should really matter to STEM disciplines" with Yasmín Hern…
Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X…
Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with A…
How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with Jam…
“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul
Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Break…
Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation i…
Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future F…
Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS
R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century E…
Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of …
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial…
Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New S…
Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise…
Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and t…
Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the…
Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revol…
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Me…
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Arch…
Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Cent…
Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in th…
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine w…
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Archit…
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhsta…
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postw…
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authorit…
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformat…
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime i…
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landsca…
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home …
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identificatio…
Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Con…

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