‘Artificiality’ and ‘Intelligence’ as interactional achievements

Annual Finnish Social Psychology Conference, Tampere, 8 May 2026 Abstract Public and scientific discourses about ‘AI’ treat ‘artificiality’ as an inherent property of machines, and ‘intelligence’ as an inherent property of persons. Drawing on conversation analysis and discursive psychology, I will argue that both are better understood as interactional achievements, produced turn-by-turn in the…