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Nina Beguš
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UC Berkeley - InterpretAI
Artificial Humanities - First Encounters with AI
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Registrations for this talk at OpenAI are available here:
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January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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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!

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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 19, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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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!
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"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
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Nailed it.
January 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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"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 13, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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My book is available for free on a kindle format these days!
January 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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LLMs stage a massive, automated cultural encounter, yet remain structurally monolingual.

My paper for a proposed Cultural AI issue (forthcoming in 2027) argues that literary studies offer practical tools for diagnosing and redesigning LLMs as cultural machines.

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World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI
LLMs stage a new form of cultural encounter, massive, automated, and monolingual. Literary disciplines have always negotiated cultural struggles with comparativ
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January 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Jean Epstein, in 1946, called cinema "the intelligence of a machine."
January 10, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Going to MLA soon to talk about digital infrastructures of knowledge creation
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Interpretability 101: The model is deciding whether to lie or not.
January 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Have I caught the Baltic Sea meeting the North Sea?
January 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Starting with an online session today!
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& if you’ll be in Toronto, come discuss automation and contingent teaching with us!
January 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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January 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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What a great and engaged review of the book!

"What lifts the book into something genuinely energizing is its refusal to stop at diagnosis. Artificial humanities is proposed not as a critique perched safely on the sidelines but as an operating principle." onepercentrule.substack.com/p/artificial...
Artificial Humanities
Nina Beguš and the Responsibility of Authorship
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January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik's chicken coops for a Viennese family
January 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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An interesting new paper in AI and Society on the history of clichés, with the latest reuse in AI. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
AI and clichés - AI & SOCIETY
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January 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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My first view this morning… hm
January 5, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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January 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Going to MLA soon to talk about digital infrastructures of knowledge creation
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Explain like I'm 35.
January 3, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Delo's article on funding open science mentions my new book.

I'm grateful to @uofmpress.bsky.social for supporting open access for Artificial Humanities and to my universities, Harvard & UC Berkeley, that significantly contributed to the cost of whooping $15,000 through open access initiatives.
January 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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This is my 1st time in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (I just never thought to submit there, heh).

My story is called “The Apology Tour” & it’s set in the world of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. It's about the consequences of AI. Plus, you meet Ijele for the 1st time, imagine that, 😉.
A copy of the issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction that I got from Barnes & Noble. I am holding it as I sit in my car. The Apology Tour By Nnedi Okorafor HER LEFT EYE TWITCHED AND SHE wanted to slap the side of her face. But how would that look in front of all these people? She bristled at the thought and focused on the open book sitting on the podium before her. Her book. Her memoir. She'd lost her place. Shit, she thought. Ever since updating her glasses with progressive lenses, she'd been having this problem. They were supposed to have the opposite effect. She didn't think she'd ever get used to wearing glasses. Why would she? At sixty-four, she'd never worn glasses or contacts in her entire life, until the last year. She glanced up at her audience and softly laughed. She heard them all sigh, several people grinning back at her. Adoration. Interest. Despite it all. A big profile piece on 60 Minutes called her "The Stoic Unicorn." She had this. She'd had it for the past year, since her book was released directly into fanfare and instant bestseller status. And none of it had been surprising, considering who she was and what she'd written about. She was one of the most infamous people on the planet. Standing up here before two hundred people and reading from her book should have been the easy part. Her left eye twitched again and she grasped the sides of the podium. Then both of her eyes found her place and she continued reading. "Could I forgive myself, though? I created it. Then I perfected it. I was a top-tier engineer at Intelligent Robotics. I was a rarity in too many ways to list. I knew it. I was proud of it. I was on salary. I was doing... my job. What I'd been hired to do. But this project was my baby. It was my idea; it came out of my head. I am driven, ambitious, smart. Potential is worthless until realized into being. I am a doer. So I stayed up nights, researching, compiling, researching, digesting, thinking, theorizing, researching, testing and testing. I ignored my husband, my children, my grandchildren. I dropped out of their lives for those months. Ifocused razor.. blade sharp. Because I knew." She paused Why do I always read this part? But she knew that, too. It was what everyone wanted to hear. They would read her whole book. Yes. They wanted to know her full story. Yes. They were interested in her life, how she got here, to this place in time. Yes. They would do that on their own. Yes. However, right now, in this moment, on this book tour, they wanted to hear that hitch in her throat. See that frown on her brow. That pain. That guilt. Her left eye twitched, again. They couldn't see the twitching that had been plaguing her since the start of her book tour three months ago. If they could, they would enjoy, feel unburdened and refreshed by that, too. "I knew I could... wake it up. The singularity was right in my hands. I just needed to complete the alchemy in the coding. That's how I saw it. As alchemy. As I did it, I knew what I was doing. Tunnel vision did not limit my awareness of what it meant to create awareness. I knew. And..." She sighed and looked at her audience. They were waiting for it. It's therapy, she thought, not for the first time. Then she spoke the words, letting them tumble from her lips like heavy stones, "I'm sorry." She shut the book loudly, imagining a cloud of dust puffing up from its pages as if it were some ancient tome and she were the ghost of a sacrificed creature cursed long ago to read it forever. Stuck in the role of massaging the kinks out of the world's tense back. For creating something she couldn't have resisted creating the moment the path became clear to …
January 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Final interview for the year, translated from Slovenian by the podcasters: www.strasnohudi.si/novice/nina-...
Why artificial intelligence reflects the culture of its creators — Strašno hudi
Author of the book Artificial Humanities , explains why digital assistants are biased, how the male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley shapes algorithms, and why philosophers should sit at the same ...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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The westernmost point of Istria and the oldest Croatian lighthouse from 1818
December 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM