Predicted: Mona Sloane on How AI is Restructuring Social Life

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Please join us for a talk co-hosted by MAIRI and FSSH: Dr. Mona Sloane will give a talk about her new book, Predicted: How AI is Restructuring Social Life \(U California Press, 2026\). 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 fundamental institutions, 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. Drawing on over a decade of empirical research and real-world examples, this book invites readers to see AI for what it is: deeply social, deeply political, and open to change.  Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life 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.