What’s in a Name? The Art, Psychology, and Culture of Naming Your AI

When we bring a new human into the world, we agonize over baby name books, family trees, and syllable rhythms. But in the modern age, a new kind of companion, assistant, and creative partner is entering our lives: Artificial Intelligence.

Whether you are naming a personalized productivity bot, a custom chatbot persona, an open-source model running on your local machine, or a fictional sentient AI in a novel, giving an AI a name is a profound act. It transforms a cold amalgamation of algorithms into an entity with an identity.