The AI as Social Actor
摘要
This chapter concludes the book by reiterating the importance of approaching AI as a social actor. It positions the social actor not as a status grounded in essence or inner attributes, but as an analytical orientation for thinking about how social meaning is jointly composed within relationships between humans and AI. It also reiterates that what the three design research cases, Beau, Areca, and ShamAIn, ultimately point to is the value of closely attending to the process through which social actorhood gradually takes shape through repetition, alignment, and negotiation. Taken together, the chapter affirms that the sociality of a thing is not a fixed property but relational, contingent, and distributed. It emphasizes that design extends beyond interfaces and involves the deliberate configuration of relationships, as well as the social consequences that follow from them.