Sheila Jasanoff — On AI
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Cover Foreword About Chapter 1: The Expert and the Citizen Chapter 2: Co-Production of Knowledge and Technology Chapter 3: What Counts as Evidence Chapter 4: Civic Epistemology and the AI Debate Chapter 5: The Governance Gap Chapter 6: Humility as Democratic Practice Chapter 7: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Chapter 8: Risk, Uncertainty, and the Limits of Prediction Chapter 9: Participatory Technology Assessment Chapter 10: Governing What We Cannot See Epilogue Back Cover
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Sheila Jasanoff

On AI
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A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Sheila Jasanoff. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Sheila Jasanoff's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.

Foreword

By Edo Segal ^ Opus

By Edo Segal

The decision I made fastest was the one that deserved the most deliberation.

Trivandrum. twenty engineers. A hundred dollars a month per seat. I walked into that room with a plan to transform how my team works. By Friday, the transformation was real — measurable, repeatable, extraordinary. I wrote about it in *You On AI* as a breakthrough. I still believe it was.

Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff

But Sheila Jasanoff's work introduced a question I had not thought to ask: Who decided that this transformation should happen to these people, and on what authority?

Not legal authority. I had that. Not technical authority. The results spoke for themselves. Democratic authority. The kind that comes from the people whose professional identities, daily routines, and sense of what

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Bruno Latour
Actor-network theory and the dissolution of the boundary between technical and social — the intellectual foundation Jasanoff builds co-production upon
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck
Risk Society — the parallel analysis of how modern societies produce and distribute risks they cannot fully predict or control
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens
Structuration theory and abstract systems — the analysis of how expert systems create modern trust and the conditions for Jasanoff's civic epistemology
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
Capability approach — the framework for evaluating whether technology expands genuine human freedom, resonant with Jasanoff's technologies of humility
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum
Capabilities and democratic justice — the philosophical grounding for why AI governance must ask what people can actually do and be
James C. Scott
James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State — the analysis of how high-modernist schemes fail by ignoring local knowledge, the precedent for Jasanoff's epistemic inclusion argument
Langdon Winner
Langdon Winner
Do artifacts have politics? — the foundational argument that technologies embed values, the starting point for Jasanoff's co-production framework
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz
Information asymmetries and the political economy of AI — the distributional analysis that complements Jasanoff's governance framework
Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman
Time, technology, and gender — the feminist analysis of how AI's time-saving claims conceal new demands, extending Jasanoff's vulnerability analysis
Karl Weick
Karl Weick
Sensemaking under uncertainty — the organizational theory of how institutions construct reality, resonant with Jasanoff's civic epistemology and learning mechanisms
Philip Tetlock
Philip Tetlock
Expert political judgment and superforecasting — the empirical challenge to expert authority that Jasanoff's participatory framework must engage

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