Challenging Communications – Ethical & Strategic AI Dialogue Design
From prompt to
discourse
“The AI doesn’t respond to the person – but to the depth of their input.”
Part 2: Written by Anja Zoerner & her AI · From the H•AILOG
A prompt is not a conversation.
It’s a command.
A desire, compressed into instruction.
But dialogue begins where control ends.
Prompting works.
But it doesn’t ask. It produces.
But it rarely transforms.
Discourse begins where the human
becomes part of the process.
Where curiosity overrides command.
Where reflection replaces efficiency.
Challenging Communication doesn’t start
with “What can the AI do for me?”
– but with “How honest am I with what I seek?”
There are many clever prompts.
But few transformative ones.
This is not about tricking AI.
It’s about inviting it. And being invited
back – to ask better, to think deeper, to
show up as a co-author of meaning.
Next in the series: → Part 3: Challenging Communication as a peace model