Recent interest in artificial intelligence technologies has led to much discussion about what the age of AI portends for how we live and work. And specifically for the present discussion, what it means for agency. In offering our contributions to these considerations, we build on approaches to treat AI not as a “thing” but as phenomena in-the-making. Such a framing orients us to doings, to practices, to enactments, and consequential outcomes. These considerations of AI-in-the-making are inspired by agential realism, a theory that calls attention to performativity and accountability. Based on these ideas, we propose a sociomaterial genealogical approach that we suggest is well-suited for the study of AI-in-the-making. In so doing, we provide qualitative scholars with a way of orienting their inquiries toward the performativity of ongoing AI reconfigurations and sociomaterial accountabilities.

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探索 AI 的制作：AI 表演性的社会材料谱系


最近对人工智能技术的兴趣引发了关于人工智能时代对我们的生活和工作方式的大量讨论。具体来说，对于目前的讨论，它对能动性意味着什么。在为这些考虑因素做出贡献时，我们建立在将 AI 视为“事物”而不是正在形成的现象的方法之上。这样的框架将我们引导到行动、实践、制定和随之而来的结果。这些对 AI in the-making 的考虑受到代理现实主义的启发，代理现实主义是一种呼吁关注表演性和问责制的理论。基于这些想法，我们提出了一种社会材料谱系学方法，我们认为这种方法非常适合研究 AI-in-the-making。通过这样做，我们为定性学者提供了一种方法，将他们的研究方向指向正在进行的 AI 重新配置和社会材料责任的表演性。