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Artificial Intelligence and everyday knowledge

Author:
Domingos Cordeiro, Veridiana; Cozman, Fabio
Year:
2024

Artificial intelligence can no longer be treated as an independent object of social life since it has flooded every corner of contemporary society. It has completely changed how we acquire, produce, and interact with knowledge. Even though the scientific enterprise pioneered the development of artificial intelligence knowledge, it is in daily life that artificial intelligence is changing how we deal with knowledge. The reason for that is the rise of platforms as a contemporary digital environment where knowledge and cultural items have specific ways of being produced and interacted. Artificial Intelligence is completely embedded in daily life practices, such as navigating across the cities, recalling a memory, writing an email (and even a narrative), knowing and socializing with others, listening to music, searching for information, or creating a piece of art, either a music or a picture. Each AI engenders different impacts on how humans relate to knowledge daily. Artificial intelligence can produce representations analogous to human ones without even understanding our thoughts, feelings, and expectations. This fact draws a boundary on our mutual interactions with these technologies and certainly puts the brakes on what we can expect from them. In this paper, we draw on the impacts and changes artificial intelligence brought to knowledge production and comprehension in daily life.