Among today’s many different ways of controlling social robots, AI is discussed as the most appealing option. Often robots and AI’s are addressed by „the AI“. Many different popular definitions of social robotics and AI feature one common failure: not only do they fail to highlight the aspect of control of these devices, they actually further distract from their control by claiming their autonomy. This allows for generating the common sense idea that there would be some basic symmetric relations between humans and AI’s in terms of the potentials of the entities. On the basis of that claimed sameness, the public illusion is constructed that humans are inferior to AI’s. Behind the performance is the arts- based research project DANCR (2022-24), which researched and developed two alternative artistic AI’s to critique industrial AI production. By discussing AI-training, the dance-and-word performance youAI: train, adapt, perform tackles questions of how kinds of AI may be differentiated, what elements of language might be redeveloped to allow for more appropriate discussions around AI, what a body is and how bodies are related, and the manner in which the conceptual framing of AI-systems can be narrated.