Artificial Inquiries

This book offers a hands-on framework for documenting and reflecting on your everyday use of large language models (LLMs) in professional life. It's both a vademecum to accompany you along your daily work and LLM practices, and a research device, designed within the Ecologies of LLMs Practices (EL2MP) project at Sciences Po’s médialab. Through a sequence of exercises, organized into thematic “blocks” (such as Benchmarking or Prompting), the vademecum invites workers to slow down, observe, and describe how these systems intervene in their tasks, values, and relations at work. Rather than predicting AI’s future impacts, it focuses on its present-day consequences. Combining methods from sociology, anthropology, design, and Science and Technology Studies, Artificial Inquiries acts as a portable companion for collective and situated inquiry, helping groups of practitioners to make sense of AI technologies on their own terms, beyond narratives of disruption or inevitability.