Health · Mental health · published 2026-10-10 · via Psychology Today

How AI Is Reshaping the Words We Use

The article describes how AI-related language is evolving and changing the meanings of familiar terms while creating new words. It notes that technical and emotional vocabulary are blending to make AI more relatable, and that psychological concepts are increasingly absorbed into AI-speak. The author argues that people need to update their understanding as these linguistic shifts continue.

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The article presents AI-related vocabulary as a changing blend of technical, creative, emotional, and cultural communication. It says this shifts familiar meanings and generates new words, pointing to earlier tech terms like crowdsourcing, “Google” as a verb, troll, bot, swarm, hashtag, and superintelligence.

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