@emilymbender The AI companies are doing nothing to demystify the technology, presenting their product as something more than it really is to boost sales and investment. I doubt they waste a moment's concern about effects on the public, as long as they can say to their shareholders - "see this miraculous new technology? You should keep your money with us, because we're well ahead in the game."
When humans don't have words for something, they describe it in terms that are familar. Thats what we do. When marketing deliberately uses misleading terms and encourages unrealistic expectations, that's something different. I hold the companies marketing these products responsible for the harmful anthropomorphising and society should demand that they stop.
#AI #AIHarms #anthropomorphising