Meta-Editorial: Artificial Intelligence à la LLM is more-than-human cultural science!

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

doi:10.2478/csj-2023-0009

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Meta-Editorial: Artificial Intelligence à la LLM is more-than-human cultural science!

Cultural Science

Volume 15 (2023): Issue 1 (December 2023)

By: Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Open Access

|Dec 2025

Abstract

The special issue ‘The Human Condition for the Anthropocene: Being more-than-human’ begins with an experiment: The editorial has been authored by an assemblage of a human and an AI agent, whose draft was subject to the journal’s open peer review process. This meta-editorial reflects on the experiment and argues that advanced Large Language models can be seen as more-than-human cultural science pursued by distributed agents comprising human and non-human components.

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