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“Gmail is acting finicky today.”

“I swear my cat threw up on the rug just to spite me.”

“Siri can be so dumb sometimes.”

Humans, as social animals, find it easy to interpret certain outputs as “behaviors.” Humanizing the tech we use makes it a little bit more understandable.

But anthropomorphizing things can go wrong. Rather than making complex systems like AI more understandable, anthropomorphizing tech can actually contribute to further mystification and misunderstanding.

Our human habit of anthropomorphizing everything →
By Daley Wilhelm