🎧 Episode: “Mind the Gap—How AI is Flattening the World’s Languages”

What happens when the bots running the internet can only speak one kind of English—and it’s not yours? Are we sleepwalking into a future where the quirks, idioms, and inside jokes that make our cultures unique are bulldozed by Silicon Valley’s linguistic steamroller?

In this episode, I dig into:

- Why GenAI is speeding up the “Americanization” of English (and the “simplification” of Chinese)

- The hidden cost: What we lose when AI “corrects” our language and flattens our culture

- Real examples of how LLMs erase dialects, stereotype, and nudge us to “code-switch” just to be understood

- Is there hope for dialect-aware AI, or is “standard” language just the price of progress?

What Huxley’s Brave New World got eerily right about the cost of efficiency

This is more than a debate about spelling or grammar—it’s about memory, heritage, and the digital future of identity.

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