Alison Gopnik: abstract characters like Don Quixote always shaped human behavior
AlisonGopnik · x · 2026-09-04
Cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik responds to Raphael Millière's thread on AI characters influencing people: abstract text-based characters, even collective ones, have long shaped behavior — Don Quixote, the first novel, is itself about how novels make people act like novels.
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