What is Cultural AI and the objects of its study? My paper addresses literary tools that can be borrowed to address cultural AI issues. The paper is on now ArXiv and forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies in Spring 2027. arxiv.org/abs/2607.02369
[2607.02369] World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI arxiv.org
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- Nina Begus argues LLMs stage a cultural encounter that is 'massive, automated, and monolingual,' and proposes literary scholarship as the corrective toolkit.
- The essay proposes applying world literature methods — macrostructure, circulation, and untranslatability — to build culturally literate AI.
- The 15-page essay is forthcoming in MFS Modern Fiction Studies in 2027 and connects critical theory to structural monolingualism in AI.
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Very cool: Gašper Beguš of Berkeley has used an LLM to build incredibly detailed constructed languages, from phonotactics to morphology to grammar HIs paper: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon... Some press: spectrum.ieee.org/conlangs-ai-... And some languages! conlangcrafter.githu…
ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline aclanthology.org
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Nina Beguš reposted
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Very cool: Gašper Beguš of Berkeley has used an LLM to build incredibly detailed constructed languages, from phonotactics to morphology to grammar HIs paper: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon... Some press: spectrum.ieee.org/conlangs-ai-... And some languages! conlangcrafter.githu…
AI Model ConlangCrafter Dreams up Entire New Languages spectrum.ieee.org
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An AI that builds coherent, rule-governed conlangs is now public—raising new ways to probe language structure and model behavior.
AI Model ConlangCrafter Dreams up Entire New Languages spectrum.ieee.org
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The International Conference on Computational Creativity is hosting an Artificial Humanities workshop on narratives and AI. computationalcreativity.net/iccc26/works...
ICCC computationalcreativity.net
Artificial Humanities sneaked into Jonathan Basile's review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines :) olrsupplement.com/2026/06/01/w...
Writing Machines: LLMs and the Artifice of Intelligence - The OLR Supplement olrsupplement.com
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#CriticalAI4.1, Professor James Dobson turns to the work of interdisciplinary AI scholar Nina Beguš to uncover the ways humanists can respond to and make sense of gen AI technologies. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Nina Beguš reposted
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Very cool: Gašper Beguš of Berkeley has used an LLM to build incredibly detailed constructed languages, from phonotactics to morphology to grammar HIs paper: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon... Some press: spectrum.ieee.org/conlangs-ai-... And some languages! conlangcrafter.githu…
ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline conlangcrafter.github.io
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Had a lovely time speaking to Adam about Latent Spacecraft and our FinneGAN. We somehow kept coming back to apples, which might be particularly dangerous for those named Adam. Learn more about what we're up to with @metahaven.bsky.social @begus.bsky.social www.onelittlegoat.or…
Episode 024: Special: Interview with Nina Beguš on Finnegans Wake in AI — One Little Goat Theatre Company onelittlegoat.org
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I am super pleased to have this publication out, which has been the work of a team of 22+ #digitalhumanities scholars throughout the past academic year. Read more about it here: leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/p... Relevant tags: #AI #DH #MLA #elit #research #scholarship #humani…
New Publication: AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship leonardoflores.net
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Artificial humanities in the July issue of Monocle On the irreplaceable value of humanity in the age of AI monocle.com/business/tec...
The irreplaceable value of humanity in the age of AI monocle.com
The book is 50% off until the end of June: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... Also available under open access and free on Kindle! Another book in this framework, also on sale, is coming out in the fall: essays by writers reflecting on the entry of AI into reading & writing: press.umich.…
Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI fulcrum.org
