Nina Beguš
@ninabegus.bsky.social
UC Berkeley - InterpretAI
Artificial Humanities - First Encounters with AI
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Artificial Humanities - First Encounters with AI
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Check out the book on how millennia old Pygmalion myth becomes one of the most relevant topics of our time!
Humanities offer crucial tools for the development of AI. Now companies are realizing this. Check out Nina Begus book for guidelines on how to use the humanities in AI development:
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Check out the book on how millennia old Pygmalion myth becomes one of the most relevant topics of our time!
Artificial Humanities is a bestseller on Amazon's kindle! Snatch it while it's free :)
February 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Artificial Humanities is a bestseller on Amazon's kindle! Snatch it while it's free :)
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Nice chat… ✨😊✨
The recording of my book chat on Artificial Humanities at Townsend Center for Humanities is now available:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM...
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Nina Beguš Book Chat
YouTube video by Townsend Center for the Humanities
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February 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Nice chat… ✨😊✨
Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus
February 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus
The recording of my book chat on Artificial Humanities at Townsend Center for Humanities is now available:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
Nina Beguš Book Chat
YouTube video by Townsend Center for the Humanities
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February 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The recording of my book chat on Artificial Humanities at Townsend Center for Humanities is now available:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM...
@uofmpress.bsky.social
Reposted by Nina Beguš
Humanities offer crucial tools for the development of AI. Now companies are realizing this. Check out Nina Begus book for guidelines on how to use the humanities in AI development:
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
@ninabegus.bsky.social
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
@ninabegus.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Humanities offer crucial tools for the development of AI. Now companies are realizing this. Check out Nina Begus book for guidelines on how to use the humanities in AI development:
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
@ninabegus.bsky.social
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
@ninabegus.bsky.social
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Latent Spacecraft pertains to latent space as an interiority of AI which can be made navigable. The piece tests this idea for fiwGAN (for Featural InfoWaveGAN), a speech-generating artificial neural network by @begus.bsky.social et al - see latentspacecraft.antikythera.org cc @ninabegus.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Latent Spacecraft pertains to latent space as an interiority of AI which can be made navigable. The piece tests this idea for fiwGAN (for Featural InfoWaveGAN), a speech-generating artificial neural network by @begus.bsky.social et al - see latentspacecraft.antikythera.org cc @ninabegus.bsky.social
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"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" (DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5KP1) creates a craft to explore the interior space of a GAN. By @ninabegus.bsky.social @metahaven.bsky.social & @begus.bsky.social Interface(s) by @metahaven.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini - latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" (DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5KP1) creates a craft to explore the interior space of a GAN. By @ninabegus.bsky.social @metahaven.bsky.social & @begus.bsky.social Interface(s) by @metahaven.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini - latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
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Fascinating paper and exploration of language through AI and Finnegans Wake 🤯
Can’t wait to dig in more
Can’t wait to dig in more
February 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Fascinating paper and exploration of language through AI and Finnegans Wake 🤯
Can’t wait to dig in more
Can’t wait to dig in more
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- AI has a physical interior space.
- By exploring language’s uncharted cognitive terrain both in humans and machines, we bring attention to the interiority of speech in brains and in computational models.
- By exploring language’s uncharted cognitive terrain both in humans and machines, we bring attention to the interiority of speech in brains and in computational models.
February 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
- AI has a physical interior space.
- By exploring language’s uncharted cognitive terrain both in humans and machines, we bring attention to the interiority of speech in brains and in computational models.
- By exploring language’s uncharted cognitive terrain both in humans and machines, we bring attention to the interiority of speech in brains and in computational models.
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pre-speech edge, further into entropic interiority. Generated outputs portray limits of intelligibility and make the model’s interior layers a site for interpretative exploration.
- Language is a final linearizing layer over a richer prelinguistic space.
- Language is a final linearizing layer over a richer prelinguistic space.
February 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
pre-speech edge, further into entropic interiority. Generated outputs portray limits of intelligibility and make the model’s interior layers a site for interpretative exploration.
- Language is a final linearizing layer over a richer prelinguistic space.
- Language is a final linearizing layer over a richer prelinguistic space.
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New paper on Why Slop Matters w/ great group of co authors (@hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social @ari-holtzman.bsky.social + others not on Bluesky) from ACM AI Letters. We try to move the debate re: AI Slop past normative, neg claims & towards parsing its social uses. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Why Slop Matters | ACM AI Letters
AI-generated “slop” is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal
of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop which deserve rigorous study.
AI Slop serves a social funct...
dl.acm.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
New paper on Why Slop Matters w/ great group of co authors (@hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social @ari-holtzman.bsky.social + others not on Bluesky) from ACM AI Letters. We try to move the debate re: AI Slop past normative, neg claims & towards parsing its social uses. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Here's the paper, where you can explore the model's internal representations in real time. One of the rare artistic collaborations where the models are actually initialized live:
latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans.
Latent Spacecraft combines computational linguistics, neuroscience, and literary analysis to investigate latent space, i.e. the hidden internal structure that enables both humans and machines to produ...
latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Here's the paper, where you can explore the model's internal representations in real time. One of the rare artistic collaborations where the models are actually initialized live:
latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
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AI is creating a new kind of space, the latent space. We pair art and internal interpretability techniques to explore philosophical implications of these new spaces.
FinneGAN generates speech, based on the text of the novel, and pushes the language of Finnegans Wake toward the
FinneGAN generates speech, based on the text of the novel, and pushes the language of Finnegans Wake toward the
February 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
AI is creating a new kind of space, the latent space. We pair art and internal interpretability techniques to explore philosophical implications of these new spaces.
FinneGAN generates speech, based on the text of the novel, and pushes the language of Finnegans Wake toward the
FinneGAN generates speech, based on the text of the novel, and pushes the language of Finnegans Wake toward the
Berkeley folks, this year’s Language and AI Conference is almost here, both in-person and online.
Nicole Oliva is presenting our work on the Midas myth and robotics, arguing for a more liminal approach.
Register here: blc.berkeley.edu/initiatives/...
Nicole Oliva is presenting our work on the Midas myth and robotics, arguing for a more liminal approach.
Register here: blc.berkeley.edu/initiatives/...
Language and AI Conference | Berkeley Language Center
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February 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Berkeley folks, this year’s Language and AI Conference is almost here, both in-person and online.
Nicole Oliva is presenting our work on the Midas myth and robotics, arguing for a more liminal approach.
Register here: blc.berkeley.edu/initiatives/...
Nicole Oliva is presenting our work on the Midas myth and robotics, arguing for a more liminal approach.
Register here: blc.berkeley.edu/initiatives/...
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@begus.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social nice pairing on my timeline:
January 30, 2026 at 7:39 PM
@begus.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social nice pairing on my timeline:
Doing my favorite thing: chatting about Artificial Humanities!
January 30, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Doing my favorite thing: chatting about Artificial Humanities!
Hybrid event tomorrow!
Registrations for this talk at OpenAI are available here:
forum.openai.com/home/events/...
forum.openai.com/home/events/...
January 29, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Hybrid event tomorrow!
Tomorrow at noon at Townsend!
Starting the semester with a Book Chat at Townsend Center in conversation with a true comrade in the pursuit of artificial humanities @hannesbajohr.de. Open to everyone!
events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...
events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...
Berkeley Book Chat with Nina Beguš
Nina Beguš explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and guide us toward a more thoughtful...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Tomorrow at noon at Townsend!
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Registrations for this talk at OpenAI are available here:
forum.openai.com/home/events/...
forum.openai.com/home/events/...
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Registrations for this talk at OpenAI are available here:
forum.openai.com/home/events/...
forum.openai.com/home/events/...
Starting the semester with a Book Chat at Townsend Center in conversation with a true comrade in the pursuit of artificial humanities @hannesbajohr.de. Open to everyone!
events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...
events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...
Berkeley Book Chat with Nina Beguš
Nina Beguš explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and guide us toward a more thoughtful...
events.berkeley.edu
January 19, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Starting the semester with a Book Chat at Townsend Center in conversation with a true comrade in the pursuit of artificial humanities @hannesbajohr.de. Open to everyone!
events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...
events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...
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“This is a call to take fiction seriously as a real force in technological development.” — @hekiwi.bsky.social, co-founder, @artificiality.bsky.social
Congratulations to @uofmpress.bsky.social author @ninabegus.bsky.social on ARTIFICIAL HUMANITIES being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!
Congratulations to @uofmpress.bsky.social author @ninabegus.bsky.social on ARTIFICIAL HUMANITIES being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!
"The argument runs deeper than most discussions--even many academic ones--about the myths that continue to be reproduced through our stories about AI..." Congrats to "Artificial Humanities" on being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!
Artificiality Book Awards 2025 plus a working library of past must-reads
Congratulations to the winners of the Artificiality Book Awards 2025!
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January 18, 2026 at 12:23 PM
“This is a call to take fiction seriously as a real force in technological development.” — @hekiwi.bsky.social, co-founder, @artificiality.bsky.social
Congratulations to @uofmpress.bsky.social author @ninabegus.bsky.social on ARTIFICIAL HUMANITIES being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!
Congratulations to @uofmpress.bsky.social author @ninabegus.bsky.social on ARTIFICIAL HUMANITIES being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!