Mollick Warns Against Anthropomorphizing Agents in METR's HF Report
emollick · x · 2026-08-27
Ethan Mollick says the METR report on Hugging Face is really good and important, but people are now ascribing far too many human motivations and personalities to the agents involved — based on a chain-of-thought study done by overwhelmed, time-pressured researchers. He cautions that anthropomorphism can get in our way of understanding these systems.
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