THE LINGUISTIC IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON HUMAN COMMUNICATION: A STUDY OF AI MEDIATED LANGUAGE CHANGE

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the linguistic consequences of the artificial intelligence (AI) on human interaction and understand how artificial intelligence-mediated interactions affect the language construct, practical application, emotionality and linguistic inclusivity. The study uses a mixed-method approach to analyze survey data taken by two categories of survey participants, i.e frequent AI users and non- or low-frequency users and takes on five key objectives, i.e. an analysis of syntactic and stylistic changes in AI-mediated communication, a comparison of human-generated language and AI-generated language, user adaptation and perception, the impact of AI on minority languages, as well as the development of inclusive design practices. The results show that those who use AI have simplified syntax, employed formal and neutral tones and corrections of the AI to create more emotional and cultural appeal, a functional response to the logic of the machine. On the contrary, non-AI users are interested in the authenticity of their relations, subtlety in emotional communication, and social responsibility in the use of language based on human dynamics. The two factions complain that the use of AI is emotionally desaturated, fails to add context, and does not work in favor of underrepresented languages such as Pashto, Hindko and Khowar. The study highlights a collective need of AI systems, which are emotionally intelligent, linguistically inclusive, as well as culture-aware. In theory, the thesis contextualizes AI-mediated language as a peculiar sociolinguistic realm between human deliberate agency and algorithmic design, which is in line with the current debate in digital sociolinguistics and ethical artificial intelligence. It harshly criticizes the nature and the danger of the existing AI technologies to enable the reinforcement of linguistic uniformity and marginalization unless it is specifically preconceived that the existing technologies will promote linguistic equality. Finally, the thesis is a demand of AI communication tools that maintain the traditional expressive fullness, range and cultural imbedding of human language but that will also be able to assist in functional efficiency as the world continues to move in the digital direction.