Mark Dingemanse is Associate Professor in Language and Communication at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen. His studies of social interaction in diverse languages uncovered several universals of conversational structure. With Andreas Liesenfeld, he developed the first global index of open source generative AI. Central to his current research is a focus on language as humanity’s most important and most flexible technology, which leads him to develop new perspectives on artisanal and artificial ways of languaging. His research group Futures of Language is funded by a Vici talent grant from the Dutch Research Council.