The Double Contingency Problem: AI Recursion and the Limits of Interspecies Understanding

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Main Author:	Bishop, Graham L.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Computers and Society
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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