AI anthropomorphism

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AI anthropomorphism is the attribution of human-like feelings, mental states, and behavioral characteristics to artificial intelligence systems. Factors related to the user of the AI – such as culture, age, education, gender, and personality traits – are also important determinants of the strength of anthropomorphic effects. Since the earliest days of AI development, humans have interpreted machine outputs through anthropomorphic frameworks, but the recent emergence of generative AI has amplified these tendencies. Terms such as learning, understanding, reasoning, thinking, hallucinating and planning are frequently used in AI research to describe capabilities of AI systems, without necessarily implying consciousness, sentience, human-like cognition, or understanding in a stronger philosophical sense. In research and engineering, there is a distinction between anthropomorphism and anthropomorphic design. The former is an innate human tendency toward non-human entities. The latter is the scientific...

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