VentureBeat January 18, 2025
In our rush to understand and relate to AI, we have fallen into a seductive trap: Attributing human characteristics to these robust but fundamentally non-human systems. This anthropomorphizing of AI is not just a harmless quirk of human nature — it is becoming an increasingly dangerous tendency that might cloud our judgment in critical ways. Business leaders are comparing AI learning to human education to justify training practices to lawmakers crafting policies based on flawed human-AI analogies. This tendency to humanize AI might inappropriately shape crucial decisions across industries and regulatory frameworks.
Viewing AI through a human lens in business has led companies to overestimate AI capabilities or underestimate the need for human oversight, sometimes with costly consequences. The stakes...
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