Developer Pushes Back on AI Personhood Narrative: Models Are Just Software

Ex-Google dev rel lead Gerard Sans argues against the AI personhood narrative pushed by labs like Anthropic, insisting models are just software—stateless, weight-compressed programs—and that anthropomorphism serves marketing.

2026-09-07 ~ 2026-09-07 · 2 related posts

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