Arvind NarayananAnthropomorphizing AI is dangerous: it causes emotional harms and it can derail policy debates. AI developers and journalists need to stop enabling this tendency, and we need research on how people interact with chatbots to create better guardrails. We also come up with a more nuanced message than “don’t anthropomorphize AI”. Perhaps the term anthropomorphize is so broad and vague that it has lost its usefulness when it comes to generative AI. https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/people-keep-anthropomorphizing-ai By @sayashk and me.
Mark Hughes@randomwalker @sayashk same for physical robots and indeed anything that humans will be liable to unnaturally emote.
That's intentionally broad because it is a vulnerability that we have been conditioned to ignore and causes enormous damage by undermining individual and collective reasoning and autonomy.