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Are You Anthropomorphizing AI?
Are You Anthropomorphizing AI?

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People frequently anthropomorphize or personify technology, ascribing characteristically human or personal features, states, or abilities to technological artifacts. These might include properties falling under the bodily or biological, experiential or phenomenological, affective or emotional, intentional or agentive, rational or cognitive. . . .

People frequently anthropomorphize or personify technology, ascribing characteristically human or personal features, states, or abilities to technological artifacts. These might include properties falling under the bodily or biological, experiential or phenomenological, affective or emotional, intentional or agentive, rational or cognitive. Though I will use “anthropomorphism” and “personification” more or less interchangeably, it’s worth noting the […]

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