LANGUAGE AND INNOVATION – THE POST-HUMAN FUTURE?

Current concerns about AI agents‘ autonomy extend to their use of – and invention of – language Last week the Guardian‘s Technology Editor, Rob Booth, asked me about the characteristics of language shared by, or seemingly invented by AI. Rob’s article is here… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/syd-barrett-ai-chat-language-poetic-tech-bro-jargon-oversight?CMP=share_btn_url To follow up on the issues raised from a purely linguistic perspective, I did what I usually do when analysing or critiquing the potentials of AI. Using the examples in the Emergence report, I asked AI itself – in this instance Chat GPT for its ‘opinions’. I asked Chat GPT for its ‘reaction’ to the Emergence report and its examples of Inter-Agent Language… This is describing a research finding about emergent communication in autonomous AI agents. In simpler terms: Agents can create new words or symbols: Instead of relying entirely on human-provided language, multiple AI agents may invent shorthand or…