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URL:https://philosophy.colostate.edu/events/anthropomorphism-and-human-ai-
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SUMMARY:Anthropomorphism and Human-AI Relations with Ali Hasan
DESCRIPTION:Given the way that AI models work and the way that ordinary hum
 an rationality works\, it is very likely that people are anthropomorphizin
 g AI\, with potentially serious consequences. There are good reasons to do
 ubt that today’s AI systems have anything like human understanding\, and
  even if they have internal representations or meaningful contents in some
  sense\, these are unlikely to correspond to our ordinary understanding of
  natural language. However\, there are natural\, and in some ways quite ra
 tional\, pressures to anthropomorphize or personify AI systems in biased w
 ays. This includes not only the classical or obvious ways of personifying 
 AI — taking them to be sentient or have consciousness and understanding 
 — but also taking AI to simulate or function like understanding\, track 
 the meaning of our language and our reasoning or logic\, or have a model o
 f the world our language is about. These more subtle or unobvious forms of
  anthropomorphism or personification raise serious\, difficult ethical que
 stions about how to manage our evolving relationship with AI.
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