Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane
10. Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane
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Show: New Books Network — New Books in Sociology
Host / guest: Not listed
Focus: Agents for Everyone
Date: October 16, 2026
Duration: 40:46
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Summary: Host Pete Kunze interviews sociologist Mona Sloane about treating AI as social infrastructure rather than a detached technological force. They discuss prediction, classification, institutional authority, technological determinism and public agency. A complete indexed transcript grounds the synopsis, while the publisher listing and independent catalog establish identity, date and runtime. The conversation helps leaders examine who defines predictive categories and who can challenge them; audio was not played.
Why it matters: Ask which institutional assumptions an AI workflow encodes, whose authority it changes and what meaningful route exists for affected people to contest predictions.
Connection to the brief: Ask which institutional assumptions an AI workflow encodes, whose authority it changes and what meaningful route exists for affected people to contest predictions.
Coverage: Selected for this edition.
Listen / watch: New Books Network — New Books in Sociology