Distributed Intelligence and Common Good Infrastructure

The text analyzes Dennis Yi Tenen's approach to artificial intelligence, rejecting the dichotomy between anthropomorphic inflation and reductionism. The author proposes viewing intelligence not as a homogeneous substance, but as a multidimensional architecture of capabilities. AI is defined here as a 'speaking library'—a distributed cognitive infrastructure resulting from the collective work of humanity, rather than an autonomous mind. The article emphasizes that language models reconstruct the structure of concepts through social carriers of information, which corresponds to theories of the extended mind and distributed cognition. The key conclusion is the distinction between the distribution of cognitive functions and moral responsibility, which remains the domain of humans despite the use of external technological scaffolding.