This chapter critically engages with the author’s book AI for Critical Interculturality (2025), the tenth in a series of retrospective analyses examining his decade-long contributions to critical intercultural studies. The book interrogates the role of AI in shaping and potentially disrupting ICER, challenging binary views of AI as either a threat or a solution. Framing AI as a ‘critical bosom friend’, the author explores its capacity to expose ideological biases in intercultural knowledge production, particularly neoliberal and Us-Euro-centric narratives. Methodologically, the book introduces three innovative frameworks: AI as mirror (revealing users’ epistemic shortcomings), language stratagems (disrupting AI’s linguistic norms through, e.g., paradox and hybridity) and ethical co-creation (rejecting extractive AI partnerships). The chapter highlights the key interventions of the book, decentring human exceptionalism, critiquing AI’s (hidden) curricula and advancing linguistic justice, while acknowledging limitations like technological determinism and Western-centric case studies. The author argues for considering AI as a tool for epistemic humility, urging students, scholars and educators to confront their own complicity in perpetuating uncritical discourses about technology and interculturality.