After Babel: Sapir, Whorf and the Multilingual Mind of Artificial Intelligence

Saturday 22 August 2026 One of the oldest puzzles in the philosophy of language has unexpectedly acquired a new experimental subject. For much of the twentieth century philosophers, linguists and anthropologists debated whether the language in which human beings speak affects the manner in which they think. The controversy became associated with Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf and eventually…