Sasha Stiles (b. 1980) is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher exploring the intersection of text and technology, and known for her pioneering experiments with generative literature and blockchain poetics. In late 2021, Stiles released her debut book, Technelegy, co-authored by a custom AI-powered text generator; the book probes how technology has made us more and more human over time, and explores both the exhilaration and danger of our intimate relationship with the digital. Praised by Ray Kurzweil, among others, Technelegy embodies Stiles’ vision for the future of language, which goes beyond the literary and artistic to encompass the role that linguistic innovations have always played in the development of human consciousness and the augmentation of human imagination.