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UX/UI researchers and designers have been thinking about this a lot (albeit, with less "gray" and more "black and white," largely playing on fear) because AI truly threatens their role, which is reliant on "aggregating" opinions, needs, and pain points from a broad range of users.

"Key Insight: When we focus solely on individual capabilities, we miss the dynamic nature of intelligence itself - the way understanding emerges through interaction rather than residing in any single mind."

This almost word-for-word mirrors the definition of "enactivism" (an embodied form of cognition arising from interaction with environment). AI is not always embodied, but it does seem situated. Last time I looked, Common Crawl was a major contributor to Chat GPT-3, and 46% of their sources were in English. There will undoubtedly be biases in the model. Those who challenge it will likely have experiences that fall outside of this hegemony, in line with Harding's strong objectivity.

In reality though, I've found LLMs to be pretty easily convinced, when I offer pushback. Would love to see more examples from your work teasing out the interaction piece (building off of each other)--great piece!

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