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The Language Machines Reading Group meets monthly online to discuss pre-circulated papers. To join, email languagemachinesnetwork@gmail.com.

Upcoming #

DatePresenterTitle
21 September 2026Austin Kozlowski (University of Chicago)Computational structuralism
19 October 2026Graham Jones (MIT)AI and Education (The MIT Report)
16 November 2026Lucy Suchman (Lancaster)What is language?
21 December 2026Haley Lepp (Stanford)Populist Science: The collapse of peer review and rise of virality-based evaluation in AI research
18 January 2027Jason LitzenbergChapter from his forthcoming book The Language Singularity: Posthumanist Language Teaching in the Age of AI
15 February 2027TBATBA
15 March 2027TBATBA
19 April 2027Qi Hong (Toronto)Automatic Speech Recognition and China’s Cold War Technopolitics, 1958–1991
17 May 2027 (tentative — may move for Whit Monday)TBATBA
12 June 2027TBATBA

Past Meetings #

DatePresenterTitle
15 June 2026Zion Mengesha and Sharese KingSynthetic Selves: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Language of AI Personas
18 May 2026Lisa MesseriAI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
20 April 2026Justine ZhangLLMs and the logistics imaginary
16 February 2026Spencer KaplanArtificial Agency / “You can just do things”
19 January 2026Leif WeatherbyTalk on his book Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism
15 December 2025Jack La Violette and Mikael BrunilaMetalanguage, ideology, and alienation in the age of generative AI
24 November 2025Evan DonahueStructuralism, Vector Spaces, and the Science of Meaning
20 October 2025Janet ConnorEchoing Voices: LLMs and Public Opinion in Deliberative Democracy
29 September 2025Joe WilsonEntextualizing and purifying multilingual training data in an open-science project
16 June 2025Anna & NoyaBeyond the Imitation Game: Human tests for machine models
19 May 2025Raffaele BuonoHylomorphic language models? Use, serendipity and openness in LLM-equipped robots
21 April 2025ZacharyWhat is the Matrix?: Linguistic Tokens in Higher Dimensions from wafq Talismans to Machine Learning Algorithms
17 March 2025Nils Klowait and Maria ErofeevaNonhuman Situational Enmeshment – How Participants Build Temporal Infrastructures for ChatGPT
17 February 2025Ole PuetzCo-text is all you need
January 2025Courtney HandmanThe Chatbot’s Real Self
December 2024Webb KeaneAnimals, Robots, Gods
November 2024Gabriella ChronisNLP as Language Ideology
October 2024Paul KockelmanLast Words
September 2024Michael CastelleContextualizing High-Dimensional Communication

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