There is a lot of fun conceptual information on this topic, it's more difficult to find more grounded information because it's not something we can currently falsify.

I recently heard some speaker saying that AI is language freeing itself from its meat prison. It brought me back to the saying "Words have power". This statement can and has been interpreted in many different ways. I'm not well researched in this, but words having metaphysical properties are captured in our most ancient works. And in an unscientific world this isn't that far fetched of belief. When you read/listen words can physically change your capabilities. The idea of an interpretive agent being required had not been fleshed out back then, but it really describes our modern age far better than one would expect.

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves was written down in early 1700. In it you spoke to a magic door that with the right phrase opened. To the person in 1700 this was just as much of a fairytale as whenever it was first conceived. It would be 250 years later before fantasy started to turn into fact. Now something as mundane as a voice activated door would just be pointed out as really bad security. I'm old enough that voice activated technology from the 50s hadn't really spread out enough that Open Sesame was still a magical idea. Now it's not.

LLMs are going to make the future of language really confusing as the conceptual and physical blur further.