Lampinen: I'll keep metaphors with caveats — where's evidence they backfire?
AndrewLampinen · x · 2026-10-11
Continuing the exchange with ankit2119, Andrew Lampinen notes he cited a study showing anthropomorphic language has little negative effect on how people understand AI or assign responsibility, plus cognitive-science literature on metaphor misunderstandings. His blog's position: keep using metaphors while making their limitations clear, rather than discarding them. He challenges his interlocutor to produce any evidence that such metaphors go too far in a counterproductive way.
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