When Only Adaptation Moves: AI, Robots and Parsons' AGIL Scheme
Imagine a car whose engine gets a new turbo every few months, while the steering, the brakes and the driver’s sense of where to go stay exactly as they were in 1990. That is roughly where many societies stand with AI and robotics. Talcott Parsons gave us a useful lens for this more than seventy years ago: his AGIL scheme. Read through it, today’s unease is less about the technology itself and more about a system whose parts no longer move at the same speed. ...