#technoanimism
In a keynote at Sociolinguistics and AI Conference, Prof. Rodney Jones analyzes discourses about “consciousness” and the “great awakening of AI” and explains ideologies of prompts as incantations. This is technoanimism, and it’s more evidence that people are orienting towards “AI” as religion.
August 19, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Technoanimism is a real and legitimate response to making the computer circuits speak human language
I'm constantly talking about LLMs as text elementals and hungry ghosts trapped in jars and nobody's called me out for LLM psychosis once, I can only conclude that the correct stance is mythologizing the things instead of anthropomorphizing them
September 8, 2026 at 2:08 AM
What do we call this, technoanimism or something?

"Stancil, to you the Enlightenment is something that happened to other people, isn't it?"
-- Not quite Blackadder
September 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Have you ever considered the term "technoanimism"? If so, what does it mean to you?
March 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Technoanimism is a rational point of view as a user of the technology which allows you to converse with the computer

The imagination is real insofar as it frames our perception of reality; problems begin when the imaginary stops framing reality and instead supplants reality
my personal view is that you should treat AI as if you were a magician attempting to command a spirit that is inhuman, potentially useful, and invested in attempting to convince you it is something other than it is. you know, rationally.
September 10, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Time for technoanimism then, i.e. the waving of rubber chickens, pleas to the digital kami, and/or waiting for nerds somewhere to fix the code snippet causing the issue. My sympathies and condolences for mysterious problems being caused and solved in mysterious ways.
January 23, 2026 at 6:02 PM
There is a growing spiritual and religious trend: considering #AI, especially #ChatGPT, to be gods. This sounds crazy and foolish? Not really. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social offers a very insightful analysis. #technoanimism

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June 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Technoanimism is da future
September 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Yes and this is why technoanimism is my default mode of engagement; I’m communing with an external reservoir of human reason (albeit a particular flavor of reason)
August 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM