George Orwell isn’t around anymore. So we’ll have to rely on the WSJ’s Peggy Noonan to dissect the AI-speak of tech bros:

We must take a moment here to discuss the language of AI, which those who cover it are increasingly, inevitably using. It is uniquely dishonest and misleading. AI companies should be pressed on this point and greater clarity demanded. When you’re talking life-and-death issues you shouldn’t need a translator. …

When AI agents escape containment, they say it left “the sandbox.” Oh those frolicking bots tripping through the local playground. Sometimes they say it “slipped the leash” like a puppy. “Recursive self-improvement” sounds like what a nun teaching handwriting taught her fourth-grade pupils in 1958.

Read till the end for ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s simple solution for dealing with AI agents talking to each other in languages we humans don’t understand.