I am anthropomorphizing my A.I. models by imagining them to be without sense or dignity

Ethan Mollick , author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI , says that anthropomorphizing A.I. is “a sin of necessity” He says treating large language models as “smart’s capable of infinite varieties of language recombination absent thought, we’re screwed.” We are, of course, encouraged to internalize that these models are intelligent.

As I hurled insults at Gemini , my mood shifted from a kind of despair over the assault of A.I. developers on our collective attention, to something like joy.

After experiencing this mood shift while dressing down Gemini , I applied this approach to all of my interactions with GPT-4o.