Paper argues LLMs are “anthropomimetic,” mirroring human flaws as well as strengths
dioscuri · x · 2026-07-25
The author points readers to a paper on the “Anthropomimetic Turn,” arguing that LLMs are not just humanlike in surface behavior but robustly anthropomimetic: they recapitulate human traits, flaws included.
The thread frames that as relevant to:
- safety assumptions about power-seeking and self-preservation via instrumental convergence
- broader economic and societal impacts of systems that imitate human behavior so well
It is presented as a paper worth reading for the full argument.
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