David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published an article titled, "There is No Language for AI to Speak: A Meditation on Language, Faith, and our Dogmatic AI". This five-part essay appeared in the journal Rhizomes. The essay explores the fundamental instability of language and its implications for artificial intelligence. Gruber argues that language inherently “pretends” to represent reality while simultaneously “portending” alternative meanings, creating an inescapable condition of doubt and interpretive multiplicity. Drawing on thinkers like Lacan, Kierkegaard, Tanabe, and Derrida, Gruber contends that dogmatic attempts to fix meaning—whether religious, political, or technological—inevitably generate their own contradictions and rebellions. The essay then positions AI as a contemporary secular substitution for divine authority, functioning as “God the Fodder” that promises to secure truth and eliminate doubt while remaining fundamentally trapped within language’s duplicitous nature. The author ultimately suggests that we will and must doubt AI, since only faith, as an embodied silence, can navigate the paradoxes of existence.
