Culture & Human Agency
Human judgment, cognition, social effects, philosophy, ethics, media, and public meaning.
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Who Cares if AI Is Conscious-It's Basically Alive
Steven Levy on Who Cares if AI Is Conscious-It's Basically Alive. Context for public debates about AI, judgment, and meaning.
WIRED (Backchannel) · Sep 4, 2026 -
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Collective creativity in hybrid societies
Novelty (single artifacts) and diversity (populations) move in opposite directions under AI ideation; mixed groups can outperform and out-diversify either kind alone - composition decides, not the tool
arXiv · Sep 2, 2026 -
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Towards AI-Assisted Clinical Trial Matching: TrialGPT 2.0 - Real-World Deployment
Six-month production deployment in a live tumor board: 91% top-10 retrieval, screening time cut 55.0%, patient trial access expanded 90.9%; structured inspectable explanations keep expert judgment in the loop
arXiv · Sep 1, 2026 -
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AI Should Not Only Be Helpful. It Should Be Contingent: Artificial Intimacy, Sycophancy, and the Future of Social Learning
The soft face of the veto is contingency. "AI Should Not Only Be Helpful.
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Bridges 2026: How Schools Are Putting AI Agents to Work
Education's divide is autonomy, not value: MATC stays guarded with faculty-controlled agents and a human at the end of $150M reporting; Johnston CC runs 12 enrollment agents to scale beyond hiring; Peninsula SD rolls agents out to every staffer.
Jul 22, 2026