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.
Steven Bodzin@randomwalker @sayashk when someone refers to Siri or Alexa as *she," be sure to say "it's an it."
Hilariously, some people have no problem assigning a gender to this computer program but have big problems using the correct pronouns for many human beings.