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Philip E. Agre is an American Artificial intelligence researcher and humanities professor, formerly a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Research could proceed in a cycle, with each impasse leading to critical insight, reformulation of underlying ideas and methods, fresh starts, and more instructive impasses.

AI people find it remarkably difficult to conceptualize alternatives to their existing repertoire of technical schemata. The idea that human beings do not conduct their lives by means of planning, for example, is just short of unintelligible.

space for critical reflection on its methods and concepts. Critical analysis of others’ work, if done responsibly, provides the field with a way to deepen its means of evaluating its research.

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