Take: people willing to anthropomorphize AI have made better AI predictions
jeremiecharris · x · 2026-09-01
The author offers an empirical observation: so far, people willing to anthropomorphize AI — modeling its behavior through a human-mind lens — have made notably better predictions about AI than those who refuse to. Another salvo in the long-running debate over whether anthropomorphism is a useful predictive tool.
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