Arvind Satyanarayan

@arvind.bsky.social

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Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.

Once a designer has specified the configuration of agency for the range of conceivable tasks in an application, the line of control emerges and is relatively fixed. Illustration by Sarah Gephart.
The possibility of GenAI as a co-agent raises questions about whether constituent capacities of composition and interpretation should be balanced (a) symmetrically or (b, c) asymmetrically. Illustration by Sarah Gephart.
Independent agents become co-agents by establishing common ground, composing actions for each other to interpret. Illustration by Sarah Gephart.
Agency is the capacity to compose, interpret, and be held accountable for goal-direction action. Illustration by Sarah Gephart.