We live in a complicated but quite elegant universe.

In 2024 Artificial Intelligence demands a brand-new term for the concept because the current two-word term in English has become stereotyped and meaningless in a remarkably short time. There is no such thing as artificial Intelligence (A.I.) anymore. That is already an outdated concept. There now instead various groups of humans co-existing with groups of machines and technologies they once created, but that now are perpetuating themselves and quickly being adopted as surrogate family members.

Georg Simmel’s classic social theory of the Triad (3 humans interacting in a group) has now become replaced by the AI-ad. It is the reality of our times. Rather than resisting an irresistible force, we instead must learn new ways to use social science to understand who we are, and what our place in the world/universe is.