{"title":"Intelligent Artifice: Machine Learning From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment","authors":"E. R. Truitt","doi":"10.1177/08944393261441271","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This introduction outlines the contributions of the four following essays on the subject of the long history of artificial intelligence. They address the longstanding links between artificial intelligence and deception, the liberatory potential that AI offers, and the way that humans have used automata and robots to test and assert the limits of humanity. Taken together, they reveal provocative and unexpected elements of continuity with contemporary discussions about artificial intelligence and machine learning.","PeriodicalId":49509,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Computer Review","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3000,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Social Science Computer Review","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393261441271","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This introduction outlines the contributions of the four following essays on the subject of the long history of artificial intelligence. They address the longstanding links between artificial intelligence and deception, the liberatory potential that AI offers, and the way that humans have used automata and robots to test and assert the limits of humanity. Taken together, they reveal provocative and unexpected elements of continuity with contemporary discussions about artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Unique Scope Social Science Computer Review is an interdisciplinary journal covering social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of informational technology. Topics included: artificial intelligence, business, computational social science theory, computer-assisted survey research, computer-based qualitative analysis, computer simulation, economic modeling, electronic modeling, electronic publishing, geographic information systems, instrumentation and research tools, public administration, social impacts of computing and telecommunications, software evaluation, world-wide web resources for social scientists. Interdisciplinary Nature Because the Uses and impacts of computing are interdisciplinary, so is Social Science Computer Review. The journal is of direct relevance to scholars and scientists in a wide variety of disciplines. In its pages you''ll find work in the following areas: sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, computer literacy, computer applications, and methodology.