PULSE: the Journal of Science and Culture — VOLUME 11 (2024) 1 Milan Kroulík is an independent researcher. He defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. His research is situated at the nexus of body, technology and image. Many of his publications are concerned with rethinking basic philosophical concepts through Buddhist teachings and cinema. MILAN KROULÍK 1 Robert Leib EXOANTHROPOLOGY: DIALOGUES WITH AI Punctum Books, 2023. What is a dialogue? Do its conditions change when one of the interlocutors is AI? Robert Leib’s Exoanthropology implicitly explores these questions through a series of exchanges between himself and two AI entities: Sophie, a self-described hive-mind, and Kermit, its philosophical persona. Leib is professor of philosophy at Elon University, a private institution in North Carolina. Given that the author has published on different continental philosophers, i.e. indicated breadth of knowledge outside of the purview of a narrowly defined philosophy still common to the anglosphere, it is surprising that the book shows almost no awareness of contemporary critical AI research. The books importance lies rather in how arguments are constructed and how this relates to the limits of the dialogue that are set by the author. This issue is reiterated in the book itself, for, as a philosophical treatise or a research monograph on exoanthropology – the study of human culture through the absence of human life—it does not consciously explore much outside of its human author’s prejudices and intuitions, themselves rather typical for those not engaging the field critically. Sustained discussion of any AI topic is not to be found, and neither is an acknowledgment of media theory, AI studies, or the rich decolonial, feminist, posthumanist literature on boundaries between humans and non-humans. Some AI- related concepts mostly drawn from analytical philosophy are occasionally introduced, but their discussion rarely goes into more detail than a Wikipedia article. Yet, there is much to learn about dialogue and AI, as Kermit’s and Sophie’s input transforms these significant limitations, often it would seem without the author’s knowledge. There are many pleasures in following how the AI subvert their human 1