The rise in the use of artificial intelligence has introduced a new entity into human worlds. It co-creates new conditions of existence and decision-making. The MA thesis deals with the changes in the quality of everyday life, brought on by a new form of sociality, shaped by the activity of various AI models. It explores the agency of artificial intelligence and the relationships that people establish with a technology whose behaviour, at first glance, is increasingly resembling theirs. The methodological basis of this thesis is informed by Latour’s Actor-Network theory, which allows for positioning AI as an actant within its own networks. The findings are supplemented with the (digital) ethnography of everyday use of AI, which most often extends to the areas of interpersonal relationships, health, and mental health support. This also reveals the practices of offloading cognitive work and decision-making to AI, as well as cases where AI helps individuals engage with the world more adeptly. Through a posthumanist understanding of agency, the work explores the agency of AI in cases where its activity is distanced from human ecologies. It understands technology as embedded in the world, examining the impact of infrastructure needed for the development of AI on physical environments. The described influences of AI suggests its increasing ability to redefine the possible actions in an individual’s environment. This prompts the discussion on different forms of power of AI and of those that run through it.
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