Researchers are increasingly recognizing technology as having human-like qualities

Academic research increasingly anthropomorphizes technology. This trend can mislead the public about how powerful artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge developments really are.

Myra Chen The researchers at Stanford University in California have compiled the content of more than 655,000 academic publications published between May 2007 and September 2023, as well as approximately 14,000 articles citing portions of those papers. We analyzed the headlines of news articles. They rated the extent to which each text used personal pronouns such as “he” and “she” rather than “it”…