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If AI Becomes a Verb, What Kind of Verb Will It Be?

Christopher Smith
Jan 23, 2026
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Every technology that survives long enough eventually undergoes the same transformation. It stops being discussed as an object—something new, something impressive, something external—and instead becomes embedded in language as an action.

It turns into a verb.

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