New Paper Argues Literary Tools Are Essential for Building Culturally Literate AI
begusgasper · x · 2026-10-01
Nina Begus's new paper World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI (arXiv:2607.02369, forthcoming in MFS Modern Fiction Studies 2027) argues that LLMs create a massive, automated, and monolingual form of cultural encounter. It proposes a layered framework drawing on comparative literature, narratology, critical theory, and world literature — via macrostructure, circulation, and untranslatability — to build culturally literate AI and address structural monolingualism in global AI textuality.
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