Anthropomorphizing LLMs as minds with intentionality and mutual meaning-making capacity with humans is dangerous because it grants them properties they do not possess and obscures the actual harms they cause through labor displacement and institutional devaluation.
causalpending
Speaker
Dr. Alex HannahEvidence Quote
“The danger is to grant, as Emily had suggested, this notion that there is a mind behind the words and that there is any kind of mutual meaning making that's happening between these word prediction machines, right?”
Source
Authors of "THE AI CON" discussing the problematic hype about AI & what those working tech should do— Product Impact Reports | AI Strategy & PlaybooksCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:41:46 AM
My Notes
Loading notes...