Articulatory Intelligence
When Agentic Conversation Becomes Co-Creation
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https://doi.org/10.23726/cij.2026.1858Keywords:
Co-creation, articulatory intelligence, human–AI collaboration, procedural narrative, voice interface, agentic systems, liminal environments, screenless futures, Artificial intelligenceAbstract
This article argues that agentic conversational AI constitutes a new form of co-creation between humans and machines. It introduces articulatory intelligence—the capacity of AI systems to translate complex knowledge through adaptive, listener-calibrated dialogue—and demonstrates that this translation is inherently co-creative: meaning emerges from neither party alone. Two cases are presented. In the first, a voice agent grounded in the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration conducted over 3,000 co-creative conversations at the AI for Good Global Summit (ITU), adapting scientific knowledge to diverse listeners in real time. In the second, a procedural dream journey drew on Jungian psychology and the listener’s own language to generate bespoke non-visual environments navigated through voice. The article proposes that conversation itself is the co-creative medium, and that voice-led liminal environments represent a new design space for human–AI collaboration.
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