Pedro Domingos: Anthropic builds anthropomorphic AI — and that's what makes it dangerous
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-08
AI researcher Pedro Domingos quipped that Anthropic should really be called "Anthropomorphic," because what the company does is create anthropomorphic AI — and that, he argues, is exactly why it's dangerous. The pun doubles as a jab at Anthropic's framing of its models as human-like.
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