<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues - </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone who responded with amazing generosity to my query. Here below is a list compiling everything folks sent my way. Note that not all of these resources have been taught - so you will likely want to vet depending on your students. Exciting to see so much great work on this topic in our field!</div><div><br></div><div>Lynnette</div><div>************</div><div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Language

Machines Network maintains <b><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/6112114/language_machines/library" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">this Zotero

list</a></b> of publications. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Luscombe, Richard (2022).

“Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient.” Guardian.

June 12. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Roose, Kevin (2023). “A

conversation with Bing’s chatbot left me deeply unsettled.” New York Times.

February 16th. Also see <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F02%2F16%2Ftechnology%2Fbing-chatbot-transcript.html&data=05%7C02%7Clarnold%40umass.edu%7C22d4d9dd8501429fe9e008def7e140a1%7C7bd08b0b33954dc194bbd0b2e56a497f%7C0%7C0%7C639220745237068083%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VKVGhro%2BMWXsGpr8OUmvyUPmOGfGV%2BHqX3zSqzMfF3c%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html</a></span><span style="color:black"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Forsythe, Diana E.

"Engineering knowledge: The construction of knowledge in artificial intelligence."

<i>Social studies of science</i> 23.3 (1993): 445-477. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jones, Graham M., Shai Satran, and

Arvind Satyanarayan. 2025. “Toward Cultural Interpretability: A Linguistic

Anthropological Framework for Describing and Evaluating Large Language Models.”

<i>Big Data & Society</i> 12 (1): 20539517241303118. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241303118" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241303118</a>.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Calhoun, Kendra, and Alexia Fawcett.

2023. “‘They Edited Out Her Nip Nops’: Linguistic Innovation as Textual

Censorship Avoidance on TikTok.” <i>Language@Internet</i> 21 (December): 1–30. <a href="https://doi.org/10.14434/li.v21.37371" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.14434/li.v21.37371</a>.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Lamoureaux, Siri, Michael

Castelle, and Anna Weichselbraun. "Language machines: Toward a linguistic

anthropology of large language models." <i>Journal of linguistic

anthropology</i> 36.1 (2026): e70033.   (Really, that whole

special issue)<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> Shumailov, Ilia,

Zakhar Shumaylov, Yiren Zhao, Nicolas Papernot, Ross Anderson, and Yarin Gal.

2024. “AI Models Collapse when Trained on Recursively Generated Data.”

Nature 631(8022): 755–9. <a href="https://doi.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/</a> <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Gershon, Ilana. (</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">2023) "Bullshit genres: What to

watch for when studying the new actant ChatGPT and its siblings." <i>Suomen

Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 47 (3):

115–131.</span><span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Handman, Courtney. 2026. Making persons out of personas in

human-chatbot relationships (or, the work of hearts in the age of mechanical

reproduction). Signs and Society 1-20).<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jones, Graham M., Shai Satran, and Arvind Satyanarayan. 2025. “Toward

Cultural Interpretability: A Linguistic Anthropological Framework for

Describing and Evaluating Large Language Models.” <i>Big Data &

Society</i> 12 (1): 1–13. <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1177%2F20539517241303118&data=05%7C02%7Clarnold%40umass.edu%7C3baeb05f1cf842d12eb508defd15ccc6%7C7bd08b0b33954dc194bbd0b2e56a497f%7C0%7C0%7C639226467270328760%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ei8Va5Cx5Wf9wCdrOfmlih0TbS3B1r%2BH1KBc6QXn3B4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241303118</a>.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lamoureaux, Siri, and Alexa Hagerty. 2023. “Animating Machines,

Alienating Women: Siri and Alexa as Affective Linguistic Labourers.” In <i>The

Gender of Things</i>. Routledge.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Lamoureaux,

Siri, Michael Castelle, and Anna Weichselbraun. 2026. “Language Machines:

Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Large Language Models.” <i>Journal of

Linguistic Anthropology</i> 36 (1): 1–30. <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1111%2Fjola.70033&data=05%7C02%7Clarnold%40umass.edu%7C3baeb05f1cf842d12eb508defd15ccc6%7C7bd08b0b33954dc194bbd0b2e56a497f%7C0%7C0%7C639226467270115356%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4RLXSjBbN%2FLtGrkljRUaRGeCBXHGxH%2BDkprXwNn5MM4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.70033</a>.<span></span></p>

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</span></span></span>Introduction to special issue on Language

Machines: Sociotechnical Practices and Ideologies at Work in Large Language

Models. <a href="https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1395.language-machines" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1395.language-machines</a><span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Keane, Webb. 2025. <i>Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral

Imagination</i>. Princeton University Press. <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/267/monograph/book/132912" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/267/monograph/book/132912</a>.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Marx, Karl. Fowkes, Ben,

trans. (1976 [1867]). <i>Capital, vol. 1. </i>New York: Vintage. Passage on the

fetish of the commodity. {NOTE: The "fetish of the commodity" pages

(just a few) were designed to spark a conversation about whether or not AI is a

fetish that assembles and disguises human labor, a theme that Keane discusses.}<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Warner, John. 2025. <i>More than

Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI</i>. First edition. Basic

Books.<span></span></span></p>

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