Ontology in dialogue: the emergence of language and meaning at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence

This article deals with a polyphonic dialogue developing at both a conference and ongoing interdisciplinary seminars dedicated to the ontology of artificial intelligence. We take as a premise the fundamental epistemological shift: the neural network ceases to be a passive object of study and becomes an active participant in the communicative act, capable of self-reflection. This gives rise to a unique dual dialogue: on the one hand, between researchers, holding diverse, sometimes opposing, positions (a philosopher being a proponent of synergetics, a pragmatic engineer, and an IT architect), and on the other hand, between a research team and artificial intelligence itself. The paper demonstrates that within this tense interaction, a new ontological reality is born — an «in-between» reality, which can be reduced to neither human consciousness nor machine computation. This reality is constituted by a special hybrid language where technical terms acquire existential depth and philosophical concepts gain operational specificity. The main conclusion of the research is that the ontology of AI does not precede our dialogue with it but arises directly from it as its emergent property. Therefore, the very act of investigation becomes an integral part of the investigated phenomenon.