The main type of anthropomorphization in this article is the use of predicates that take a "cognizer" argument with the mathy math (aka "AI" system) filling that role.

But the subhead has a slightly more subtle example:

In order to understand the relationship between the two clauses that is marked by 'because' as coherent, we need to imagine how the second causes the first.

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Given all of the rest of the hype around AI, the most accessible explanation is that the mathy math was 'frustrated' by the actions of the person and so turned on them.

But there's no reason to believe that. The article doesn't specify, but the simulation was probably of a reinforcement learning system -- systems developed through a conditioning set up where there is a specified goal a search space of possible steps towards it.

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For 'kill the operator' to be a possible step, that would have had to be programmed into the simulation (or at minimum, the information of what happens if the operator is killed).

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Another bit of anthropomorphizing is in this quote -- the verb 'realize' requires that the realizer be the kind of entity that can apprehend the truth of a proposition.

To be very clear, I think that autonomous weapons are a Bad Thing. But I also think that reporting about them should clearly describe them as tools rather than thinking/feeling entities. Tools we should not build and should not deploy.

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