[Potential questions to explore]

Language shapes reality, the concepts we think in, and speak of. So in AI

Comparing use of language around Capitalist AI vs Community AI?

“It is a meditation on the limits of language”

the name “AI” itself is notttt very helpful

What metaphors exist around AI? How are they (not) helpful?

“I’d like to suggest that they enable a type of cognitive exercise and practice, for redirecting our attention towards the strange, for constructing spaces of possibility, and for forming new language.”

If computation is another form of language like science like math like English, is AI just a dialect? Can we then have multiple dialects? The way we have multiple sciences and maths when we step away from colonial and imperial knowledge systems?

experimenting with ChatGPT to neologize

“As speculative models [...] artificial intelligences are, like aliens, rich poetic devices. They give us a sense of what is possible. [...] Because we struggle more and more to define ourselves in relation to machine intelligences, we are forced to develop language to describe them.”