# Grounding through the effects of language

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Epistemic kind: reconstruction

## Question

Can an AI acquire a form of practical grounding through the effects its language has on human action?

## Formulation

Investigate indirect grounding through intention, exposure, action, and consequences, distinguishing an action-mediated relationship from a claim that a model has bodily experience.

## Tension

A system may influence action without observing, understanding, or experiencing all of its effects.

## Challenge

Which consequences are observed directly and which arrive only as another actor’s report?