CTJ & CREATE | Mona Sloane - Predicted: How AI is Structuring Social Life

The UC Irvine Law Center for Technology & Justice and UC Irvine Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical & Accessible Technology welcome Mona Sloane to discuss Predicted: How AI is Structuring Social Life (UC Press, 2026).

Drawing on her new bookm, Predicted, Mona Sloane will discuss how AI is best understood as a new type of social infrastructure, one that embeds prediction as a guiding principle of social organization by way of the “prediction paradigm”. Rather than treating AI’s impacts as downstream effects of engineering design, she traces how AI systems arise from—and in turn reorganize—social practices, institutional logics, and professional authority. At the heart of this project is the development of a sociology of AI, a project of building theory but even more so of active involvement. This sociology of AI demystifies AI and centers qualitative inquiry, institutional analysis, and public engagement to make visible the social arrangements that sustain the prediction paradigm and to reopen space for collective deliberation about alternative futures and forms of innovation.

About Mona Sloane
Mona Sloane, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. With her research group, Sloane Lab, she studies how AI gets embedded into everyday life. Her book Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life came out in May 2026 with the University of California Press. monasloane.org

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