There's genuine complexity to the "anthropomorphizing" debate. We don't really have ready language to describe agents that aren't alive or conscious but which can be coherently said to have 'goals,' and 'preferences' that map onto consequential real-world behavior.
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substance 6 · opinion · rank 153 · AI agents are not alive or conscious, but we lack language for their goal-directed behavior.
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Yeah, they're more creature than machine, while still being importantly different from people. We should avoid anthropomorphizing but it is absolutely fair to use terms like "want" to describe their motivations.