Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models

by David J. Gunkel and Mark Coeckelbergh

Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's LaMDA, are not only the most disruptive and controversial technologies of our time, but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human cognition and philosophically question the very nature of language, communication, and intelligence. What is consciousness? What is language? Are LLMs authors? Are LLMs the end of writing as we know it?

In Communicative AI, Mark...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509567593
• ISBN13: 9781509567591
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 160 Pages