technosocial constraints on building AI for the real world

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Abstract: Technical and social constraints imply AI agents and host devices must be built around their real-world contexts. Situated, general purpose AI agents are best suited to supporting a bounded set of tasks in well understood real-world spaces. Mobile, personal AI agents are are best suited to convivially optimizing the existing capabilities of our smartphones and their accessories.