>As this[1] article puts it: 'And it also illustrated how much people tend to anthropomorphize AI, believing that it has deep-seated beliefs rather than seeing

>As this[1] article puts it: 'And it also illustrated how much people tend to anthropomorphize AI, believing that it has deep-seated beliefs rather than seeing it as a statistical machine.' I would go in exactly the opposite direction. AI does have deep-seated beliefs because the programmers who input the training data and label it have deep-seated beliefs, as does the culture the content is drawn from. I'd say it's much more likely that AI is more human than philosophically ignorant scientists obsessed with mechanistic empiricist dogma would let on than it is that humans are just 'statistical machines'. For instance, AI identifying some women as men (and some men as women) show that it's just as human as the rest of us - it was trained on data based on squarely modernist gender appearances. This is a good article that touches on the issue: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078224 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078224