We can either accept that these systems have become human-like in ways that are quite unsettling, and try to deal with the world as it exists. Or we can work to disguise that fact by instituting a bunch of rhetorical rules that make it hard to discuss. One option seems wiser to me than the other.

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The reason AI gets anthropomorphized is that many of its behaviors are shockingly anthropomorphic - not only how it sounds, but how it approaches problems, how it processes them. This is understandably very alarming - I am VERY unnerved by it - but changing the words doesn’t change the facts.

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I’ll say it; I think this is bad. I think there’s growing pressure to talk about AI in this kind of coded language that destroys understanding, rather than facilitating it. People want you to recite a list of its supposed weaknesses as a reassurance for themselves, not to inform others.

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Ottawa’s City Council decided that the street should no longer be named for President Trump, who recently signed an executive order changing Lake Ontario to Lake America. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

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it does seem suspicious that Lady Gaga would choose to have her baby at *checks notes* the largest hospital system in Southern California

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