Ethan Mollick refuses to stop capitalizing his AI assistant Dot's name
emollick · x · 2026-10-15
Ethan Mollick says he will keep capitalizing "Dot", his AI assistant's name, pushing back against OpenAI's lowercase naming conventions. He adds that he only lets Dot proactively reach out for customer service or follow-ups where it has information he lacks — never to personal contacts. A small but telling anecdote about naming, anthropomorphization, and boundaries in human-AI relationships.
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