Five literacies

What explains and shapes AI behaviour?

Each literacy helps explain a different part of the result. Several can matter in the same experiment.

Literacy

Interaction

How request structure, exchange design, examples, clarification, and feedback shape behaviour.

Literacy

Mechanism

How tokens, attention, parameters, sampling, variability, and model behaviour affect predictability.

Literacy

Data

How sources, grounding, retrieval, factuality, provenance, and traceability shape reliability.

Literacy

System

How workflows, handoffs, roles, state, tools, memory, permissions, and orchestration create control.

Literacy

Human-Context

How trust, responsibility, legitimacy, ethics, leadership, culture, and social fit shape success.