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Sasha Stiles

Sasha Stiles is a poet and artist who makes generative works with AI language models. Born in the United States in 1980, she earned a BA magna cum laude at Harvard in 2002 and an M.St. with high honors at Oxford in 2004, began GPT-2 experiments in 2019, and published Technelegy with a personalized AI model in 2021. She presented HEART MANTRAS in 2025 and A LIVING POEM at MoMA from September 2025 to March 2026; WORDS BEYOND WORDS won the 2025 Lumen Prize for Literature & Poetry, and A LIVING POEM became a 2026 finalist. As of October 2026, she is a poet and language artist whose practice works with AI.

Born
1980
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Timeline

  1. 1980–2004

    Harvard and Oxford degrees

    Stiles is born in the United States in 1980. She earns a BA magna cum laude at Harvard in 2002 and an M.St. with high honors at Oxford in 2004.

  2. 2019

    Early GPT-2 experiments

    In 2019, she begins working with GPT-2 by feeding it lines from her poetry and asking the model to continue her ideas.

  3. 2021

    The Technelegy collection

    She publishes Technelegy, a poetry collection created in dialogue with a personalized AI model, in 2021.

  4. 2025

    HEART MANTRAS at Art Osaka

    For Art Osaka in 2025, Stiles presents HEART MANTRAS, a generative installation with a real-time projection of a self-writing poem, ambient audio featuring her voice, and mirrored poem sculptures inscribed with AI-generated verse.

  5. September 2025–March 2026

    A LIVING POEM at MoMA

    MoMA presents A LIVING POEM from September 2025 to March 2026. It uses code sketches, datasets, prompt architectures, and human influence to produce real-time loops of verse, visuals, and voice.

  6. 2025

    A Lumen Prize poetry award

    She wins the Lumen Prize's 2025 Literature & Poetry Award for WORDS BEYOND WORDS, an infinite poem powered by a custom generative system.

  7. 2026

    A Lumen Prize finalist

    In 2026, A LIVING POEM becomes a finalist for the Lumen Prize's Legacy Futures Award.

  8. As of October 2026

    Poet and language artist

    As of October 2026, Stiles is a poet and language artist working with AI as both subject and collaborator in hybrid creative systems.

Career

Education

  1. 2004University of OxfordM.St.
  2. 2002Harvard UniversityBA

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Harvard University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Oxford. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes University of Oxford. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes University of Oxford. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.

Sources and credits

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  1. Sasha Stiles “HEART MANTRAS” | Expanded Section | ART OSAKA 2025 artosaka.jp. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA | Scientific American scientificamerican.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Sasha Stiles | Info sashastiles.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. MoMA Exhibition History List - MoMA History - LibGuides at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, Library and Research Collections research.moma.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. The 2025 Lumen Prize Winners — The Lumen Prize lumenprize.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. A LIVING POEM — The Lumen Prize lumenprize.org. Checked 20 October 2026.