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Method, Mind, and Morality: How People Make Sense of Artificial Intelligence

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

How can humans make sense of the rapid takeoff of artificial intelligence (AI)? We studied the sensemaking dynamics of AI through an open-ended, mixed-methods study with computational text analysis of millions of AI-related newspaper articles and social media posts grounded in 57 semi-structured interviews with AI professionals in 2021 and 2023--before and after the recent surge of public interest. We identify a range of sociological frames (interpretive schemas that structure collective cognition) and show how AI professionals use frames to address significant cognitive challenges, such as as

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Jacy Reese Anthis; Erik Brynjolfsson; James A. Evans
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University of Chicago (US); Stanford University (US); Santa Fe Institute (US)
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Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
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