Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet and language artist who writes poetry in collaboration with artificial intelligence.,Since 2018 she has worked with artificial intelligence,describing the voice that emerges when she writes with AI as a third voice, a fusion of herself and a language model.Her 2021 collection Technelegy, created in dialogue with a personalized AI model, helped define a new paradigm for human-machine co-creation.,
Before working with AI, Stiles had a literary career that included nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Forward Prizes. She cites text-based artists including Cy Twombly, Jenny Holzer, and Bruce Nauman as early influences.She builds her own training data setsand fine-tunes language models in a process she calls mentoring rather than training, a term shaped by her years as poetry mentor to the humanoid android BINA48.Her recurring typeface Cursive Binary renders strings of binary code in her own handwriting.She has extended it into physical form with LED sculptures such as The Wind on My Lips and in My Hair, 2024, donated to the Museum of Art + Light's permanent collection.She co-founded the literary collective theVERSEverse with Ana Maria Caballero and Kalen Iwamoto.Through theVERSEverse, she took part in After Ginsberg, a collaboration with the Allen Ginsberg Estate and Fahey/Klein Gallery that used a language model trained on Ginsberg's poems and photo captions to generate new ekphrastic poetry from his photographs.With the artist Nathaniel Stern, she created Still Moving, an on-chain poem published on Art Blocks that uses webcam-based motion tracking so each collector's movements shape their own edition of the text.
In 2023 MoMA invited Stiles to take part in its blockchain-based Postcard project.,The following year, her project Repetae received Ars Electronica's first AI Award of Distinction.In 2025 she created Art Basel's official poster Words Beyond Words.That September, MoMA presented her installation A Living Poem in its Gund Lobby, a self-rewriting, hour-long text and sound piecebuilt from Technelegy and metadata drawn from the museum's text-art collection.Reviewing the installation for The Brooklyn Rail, critic Terry Nguyen argued that despite its billing as spontaneous, the poem was built on a static, prompt-engineered core text that produced clichéd verse rather than genuine machine subjectivity.That November, Stiles won the Lumen Prize's Literature & Poetry Award for Words Beyond Words.
