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Issue 9.1

Mediating Agency and Collective Knowledge: Architecture Under Autonomous Algorithms

Phil Bernstein
Op/Positions

When I began my professional career in the mid-80s, there was little awareness of the possibilities and pitfalls of the digital in mainstream practice, and barely at all in the large firm where I worked in San Francisco. Just down the peninsula, experimentation and mild commercialization of what would be known as “expert systems”—computer programs purported to encode expertise—were underway. The principals of my firm were curious and sent me to Palo Alto to investigate. I returned to report that implementing the systems was expensive, unwieldy, and tortuous. About that time, we began implementing our first computer-aided design (CAD) system, which shared the same challenges. Meanwhile, the “Artificial Intelligence (AI) winter” set in, and the concept of expert systems expired. 


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