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OpinionTechCrunch · AI· Amanda Silberling·· 8 days ago

We can't help but treat AI as human, but is that right?

We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?

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MIT CSAIL's Unitree humanoid robots (about $50,000 each) and LLMs like ChatGPT are making people habitually treat machines as human: research shows about 70% of people remain polite when interacting with AI.

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