{
  "id": 5482,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21043v1",
  "title": "Strategic Polysemy in AI Discourse: A Philosophical Analysis of Language, Hype, and Power",
  "summary": "This paper examines the strategic use of language in contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, focusing on the widespread adoption of metaphorical or colloquial terms like \"hallucination\", \"chain-of-thought\", \"introspection\", \"language model\", \"alignment\", and \"agent\". We argue that many such terms exhibit strategic polysemy: they sustain multiple interpretations simultaneously, combining narrow technical definitions with broader anthropomorphic or common-sense associations. In contem",
  "authors": "Travis LaCroix, Fintan Mallory, Sasha Luccioni",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-22T19:40:55.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:48.872Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5482",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21043v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}