ABSTRACT

The phrase “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” appears more and more often in discussions about technology and society. Consequently, the sociological community needs a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon and its symbols. Although there are academic efforts in this sense, they tend to accentuate the scientific fragmentation that emerged due to the interpretative flexibility of AI and the lack of an accessible interdisciplinary language. The current work advances a conceptual framework for a sociological AI research by disentangling the interpretative flexibility of this technology, defining it, and reviewing existing sociological approaches on the subject. The framework was developed from a pragmatic point of view in which the aims of easing scientific progress monitoring and orientation of new researchers in the field of Sociological Artificial Intelligence Research (SAIR) guided the process.

Keywords: sociology, Artificial Intelligence, AI, conceptual, framework, SAIR.

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