AI Assistance and Engagement

Using AI, whaat!?

Yes, I utilize language models to develop my ideas. By this I mean that I prompt the AI, typically ChatGPT, with an idea or question. I then engage in critical thinking with the AI’s guidance. It often provides in-depth reflections and asks me questions to help refine my ideas. I utilize it in 3 ways: conversation engagement, discourse pattern detection, and generalized research.

I learn and develop ideas best through communication. Unfortunately, people have busy lives. When human conversation isn’t available, I temporarily turn to AI.
I have realized that discourse is extremely powerful. By finding patterns in discourse, I can better communicate my ideas to a broader audience, confront my own communication bias, and learn more about human behavior.
The most taboo use, I do ask AI to perform generalized research. Let me explain the rationale. Like I said, people have busy lives! If I have a tool to gather and organize all of the articles I need on a particular topic, I’m going to take advantage of that. But of course, I ask for citations and then go out to find those articles. I do not read the articles through AI.
For example, there was one instance where I couldn’t find the article it was suggesting. So, I went back to ask if it was a mistake. It gave me a different title. Still didn’t work. Then, it gave me another title and page numbers. The page numbers were a bit off, but the title was right that time! I am aware that it has flaws. Everything has flaws.

That being said! I find great value in many of these conversations, but I cannot possibly write up an essay for every idea I have. I think… a lot. So, I will put some of my favorite interactions here. Click on the thread titles to witness the unfolding of my biggest projects.

If citing one of these conversations, please reference as: Art, Milo. (date). [“Title of Thread”]. [ChatGPT Interaction url].

Book Research

The birth of my extensive in-progress governmental model, “The Layered-Economic System” (2024)

The prompt that inspired this addition to my website is found in this thread, “Just a random thought. You know the dramatic scene in movies when a researcher dies and leaves behind all of his research for others to analyze. I think I will leave behind my username and password for ChatGPT.com. I do so much journaling on here. If someone read through my account’s conversations, they would get a fair feel for my ideas lol. I hope to publish my full thoughts first though. Reading through half finished research is one of the most frustrating parts of academia.”

Understanding socialist discourse (2024)

Pinpointing which economy I was most trying to describe (2024)

Writing process for my book-in-progress, “The Irish Unculture” (2025)

Article Research

Middle TN Demographics for my in-progress article, “Understanding Modern Segregation” (2024)

Understanding the amino acids portion of “Time and Consciousness in Mathematical Terms” (Found in Archive List, under Philosophy) (2025)

(Trigger warning: Bits of this thread are quite emotionally driven) Physically formulating time and applying the logic to various neural processes, for “Time and Consciousness in Mathematical Terms” (Found in Archive List, under Philosophy) (2025)

AI Reflexivity

“Could you act like the sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschil and debate me?” (2025)

“Do you care?” (2025)

Teaching ChatGPT to write poetry (2025)

AI teaching me to code AI with my logical formulation of caring, influenced by Heidegger, “x(t) → z(t) ⇄ ◇y(t) → ◇z(t+1) ⇄ ◇y(t+1)” (2025)