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One Universal Communication

The habits that help us understand one another can also help us work with AI.

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An experiment in February 2025 starts a much larger conversation. What happens when the skills we use to explain, question and understand one another become useful with machines too?

This chapter currently has a summary and tool descriptions. Full exercises are marked wherever they are available.

Key terms

  • Intentional stance: Explaining or predicting a system’s behaviour by treating it as if it had beliefs, desires and intentions.
  • One Universal Communication: The book’s proposition that many habits of effective human communication also help us work with AI.

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