Algorithm or Personality? The Significance of Anthropomorphism in AI

How we started to treat digital entities as if they were living beings

Intro

The line between our lives and technology is vanishing before our eyes. We find ourselves interacting with voice assistants, chatbots, and even humanoid robots, treating them as if they were living beings. We give them personalities, emotions, and affectionate nicknames. We feel concerned when they hallucinate. And this "they" is all part of the ga…