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Donato Ricci and Gabriel Alcaras examine the narratives surrounding ChatGPT in an article published in AOC

As debates around artificial intelligence continue to swing between promises of revolution and dystopian scenarios, Donato Ricci and Gabriel Alcaras argue, in an article published by AOC, for a return to the concrete uses of large language models (LLMs).

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In this article, Donato Ricci, Head of Design Research, and Gabriel Alcaras, sociologist and postdoctoral researcher, who lead the Ecologies of LLM Practices project at the médialab of Sciences Po, examine the narratives surrounding large language models. They question both the promises and the concerns associated with these technologies and advocate for an analysis grounded in their everyday uses.

Rather than focusing on speculative accounts of artificial intelligence, the authors invite readers to observe large language models in practice.

They argue that by examining these technologies in use and in in-practice”—we can better understand their effects on society and challenge common assumptions about the automation of work.

Read the full analysis in the article published by AOC.