Publications
Pierre Huyghe, mask from Idiom 2024.
Book
Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI. U of Michigan P, 2025.
Humanities have studied the human and language for centuries and bring necessary depth to the creation and implementation of AI, focusing on cultural and philosophical implications.
In the book, I present my research program on how to bring the humanities into the very creation of technologies on the case of AI-based language technologies: chatbots, virtual assistants, social robots, communicative neurotechology, and large language models.
Looking at actual and fictional representations of AI, based primarily on the Pygmalion myth, I argue against the humanlike trajectory in the development of this technology.
Papers
Experimental Narratives: A Comparison of Human Crowdsourced Storytelling and AI Storytelling. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications October 2024.
arXiv preprint from October 2023.
The paper has been used in AI pedagogy (English 101 at U of Louisiana at Lafayette) and AI and writing courses (Future Text at Stanford U, Writing with Robots at U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
In media: The Financial Times, The Independent, Berkeley News, Tech Xplore, Incredibble, NPR, KCBS, and KNX Radio, MBR video (English), Haaretz (Hebrew), The Independent Turkçe (Turkish), LaSexta (Spanish), LeBigData (French), Scientias (Dutch), CNN Brasil (Portuguese), ICT Global (Hungarian), 续航教育/Forward Pathway (Chinese/English)'Entropy.' Multispecies Lexicon Vol. II: The Planetary. Forthcoming, Berggruen Institute Press.
Engaging Comparative Literature in AI Development. OSF preprint. July 2024.
A Typology of the Pygmalion Paradigm. Collected Papers of the 21st Congress of the ICLA: The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms 4 (2021): 319-30.
“The Identity Problem” in Prenatal Testing. Voices in Bioethics 6 (2020): 1-4.
A Tocharian tale from the Silk Road: A philological account of The Painter and the Mechanical Maiden and its resonances with the Western canon. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 30/4 (2020): 681-706.
The paper has been taught in SANSKRIT 198 at Harvard U.
Dissertation
Artificial Humanities: A Literary Perspective on Creating and Enhancing Humans from Pygmalion to Cyborgs. Dissertation. Harvard University, 2020. 1-493.
Response in Literatura editorial.
Some of my earlier scholarly publications, written in Slovenian, are available on Google Scholar. (Unfortunately, it is far from ideal for indexing non-digital and non-English publications.)
I still contribute essays and op-eds to various media outlets. In 2024, my speech on LLMs and small languages was published in Outsider (and a summary here).
Popular writing
I worked as a writer and editor particularly between 2008-18 for Airbeletrina, Apokalipsa, Literatura, Mentor, Pogledi, Radio Študent, Asymptote. During this time, I published short stories and essays, some of which are featured in the essay collection Eseji izseljenih milenijk in milenijcev by Beletrina. I conducted interviews with poets and writers: Charles Simic, André Valter, Alvin Pang, and Boštjan Narat. I wrote editorials and book reviews on works by Salman Rushdie, Janez Ramoveš, Hanif Kureishi, Mitja Lovše, Festival Pranger, and many others.
Translations
I translated Alvin Pang's poetry, Herta Müller's speech, Jonas Hassen Khemiri's essay, and numerous essays by ex-Yugoslavian authors (Marko Pogačar, Dubravka Ugrešić, Igor Marojević, Srećko Horvat, and others), some of which are published in the essay collection The State of Matters: Anthology of Reflectives and Reflections (2012).