an agent in every cup

Indeed, AI is a diffuse term that corresponds to a web of human actors and computational processes interacting in complex ways

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.

Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.

-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein