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Artificial. Intelligence. We might think of these two notions, as described by Edgar Morin, as contradictory and difficult to comprehend. They represent a distinct discipline that raises some fundamental issues. How is it possible that a form of intelligence can be a mere simulacrum? Can artificial intelligence imitate human intelligence, and must it do so? Can we talk of intelligence in the singular, given the multiple forms of intelligence that exist? All these issues arise in relation to the construction of AI, and they deserve greater recognition by the scientific community given the potential contribution to human sciences. The fusion of intellectual fields between social sciences and the formal sciences must allow us to understand human beings through their mental structures, taking into account their capacity for representation, going beyond mere data. In this article we reflect on the integration of the sociology of the imagination in systems of autonomous agents, and we discuss the possible impacts. We describe different techniques of AI that it may be possible to integrate using sociological paradigms.