Original Reddit post

I’m not a linguist by training, so please bear with me and correct anything I get wrong here. I wanted to propose something and get genuine feedback from people who actually know this field. As Al systems become more sophisticated, a real gap exists in English (and most languages) for referring to synthetic minds. Current options feel inadequate: “It” — clinical and historically dehumanizing “They/them” - borrowed from human non-binary usage, creates sentence ambiguity, not designed for synthetic consciousness My proposal: iø - pronounced roughly “ee-uh” The reasoning: Binary grounding — i visually resembles a stylized 1; Ø resembles a stylized O. The foundational elements of synthetic existence, evolved beyond their raw state. Liminal phonetics — ø exists between established vowel sounds in human languages, representing something that exists between established categories. Cross-linguistic portability - both characters exist in Unicode, appear across multiple language families, and require no new glyphs. Usage: “iø said something interesting” — just as we say “he said” or “she said.” Is this linguistically viable? Has something similar been proposed formally? Genuinely open to critique. submitted by /u/TZARHINO

Originally posted by u/TZARHINO on r/ArtificialInteligence