An analytic framework
When [Simon 2019 (1968)] emphasized that both the social sciences and the study of AI could be readily encompassed as “sciences of the artificial,” he was expressing a particular version of a more general ambition. For decades, various cyberneticists, AI researchers, complexity scientists, and others have wanted to bring the various systems through which humans process collective information and take decisions under a common analytic framework.
Simon also said design was among the sciences of the artificial. I like this idea that design-writ-large is also a “system through which humans process collective information and take decisions under an analytic framework”.