"Basically pleasant bureaucrat" vs. "Sexy murder poet"
Language Log 2026-08-12
Summary:
Travis LaCroix, Fintan Mallory, and Sasha Luccioni. "Strategic polysemy in AI discourse: A philosophical analysis of language, hype, and power." In The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2026: Abstract: This paper examines the strategic use of language in contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, focusing on the widespread adoption of metaphorical or colloquial […]