François Fleuret: AI anthropomorphization now risks making us underestimate machines
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-08
Renowned researcher François Fleuret argues that the danger of anthropomorphizing AI has shifted: it's no longer that it makes humans overestimate AI capabilities, but that it makes them underestimate AI's cognitive and meta-cognitive abilities. A provocative inversion of the usual framing, relevant to AI safety debates.
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