Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)
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Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 202640 min
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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: How AI Is Restr...

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Welcome to the New Books Network. Welcome to New Books and Medium Communications, a podcast series on the New Books Network. I'm your host, Pete Kunze. My guest today is Mona Sloan, assistant professor of data science and media studies at the University

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of Virginia and the author of Predicted, How AI is Restructuring Social Life. It was published by the University of California Press in 2026. Good afternoon, Mona. How are you doing today?

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Hi Pete, thanks so much for having me. I'm great. The pleasure is mine. I'm looking forward to talking about AI with you. But before we get there, I'm just hoping if you could tell listeners a little bit

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