Andy Masley: stop treating AI metaphors like "tool" as fundamental reality
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-19
Andy Masley argues that debates over whether AI is a "tool" or whether it's wrong to "anthropomorphize" it rest on a confusion: everyday categories like lamps, continents, and tools are pragmatic fictions over underlying physics, not fundamental kinds. Surface-level metaphors about AI shouldn't be treated as descriptions of reality itself — they're useful only insofar as they're useful.
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