Artificial agency

October 23, 2018 — February 26, 2025

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I thought I had specific things to say about AI agency, apart from my interest in the causality-based models and emergence of self of it. But, upon introspection, I am not sure what it was. Maybe it was working out when the human is not the agent.

Was it to ask the question of who is the agent in human-AI collaborations? Unclear.

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