[Linganth] compiled resources on language and AI

[Lynnette Arnold]

Dear colleagues -

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!

Lynnette
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Language Machines Network maintains *this Zotero list
<https://www.zotero.org/groups/6112114/language_machines/library>* of
publications.



Luscombe, Richard (2022). “Google engineer put on leave after saying AI
chatbot has become sentient.” *Guardian*. June 12.



Roose, Kevin (2023). “A conversation with Bing’s chatbot left me deeply
unsettled.” *New York Times*. February 16th. Also see

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html
<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>




Forsythe, Diana E. "Engineering knowledge: The construction of knowledge in
artificial intelligence." *Social studies of science* 23.3 (1993): 445-477.



Jones, Graham M., Shai Satran, and Arvind Satyanarayan. 2025. “Toward
Cultural Interpretability: A Linguistic Anthropological Framework for
Describing and Evaluating Large Language Models.” *Big Data & Society* 12
(1): 20539517241303118. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241303118.



Calhoun, Kendra, and Alexia Fawcett. 2023. “‘They Edited Out Her Nip Nops’:
Linguistic Innovation as Textual Censorship Avoidance on TikTok.”
*Language at Internet* 21 (December): 1–30.
https://doi.org/10.14434/li.v21.37371.



Lamoureaux, Siri, Michael Castelle, and Anna Weichselbraun. "Language
machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models." *Journal
of linguistic anthropology* 36.1 (2026): e70033.   (Really, that whole
special issue)



 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. https://doi.org/



Gershon, Ilana. (2023) "Bullshit genres: What to watch for when studying
the new actant ChatGPT and its siblings." *Suomen Antropologi: Journal of
the Finnish Anthropological Society* 47 (3): 115–131.



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).



Jones, Graham M., Shai Satran, and Arvind Satyanarayan. 2025. “Toward
Cultural Interpretability: A Linguistic Anthropological Framework for
Describing and Evaluating Large Language Models.” *Big Data & Society* 12
(1): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241303118
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Lamoureaux, Siri, and Alexa Hagerty. 2023. “Animating Machines, Alienating
Women: Siri and Alexa as Affective Linguistic Labourers.” In *The Gender of
Things*. Routledge.



Lamoureaux, Siri, Michael Castelle, and Anna Weichselbraun. 2026. “Language
Machines: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Large Language Models.” *Journal
of Linguistic Anthropology* 36 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.70033
<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>
.

·      Introduction to special issue on Language Machines: Sociotechnical
Practices and Ideologies at Work in Large Language Models.
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1395.language-machines



Keane, Webb. 2025. *Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral
Imagination*. Princeton University Press.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/267/monograph/book/132912.



Marx, Karl. Fowkes, Ben, trans. (1976 [1867]). *Capital, vol. 1. *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.}



Warner, John. 2025. *More than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age
of AI*. First edition. Basic Books.
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