> “We have a cat and a dog and a child and an adult in the same room,” he said. “Why not an A.I.? Because pets are living creatures with agency that form emoti

> “We have a cat and a dog and a child and an adult in the same room,” he said. “Why not an A.I.? Because pets are living creatures with agency that form emotional bonds to their owners. Pets also can’t sycophantically talk back to us. I’m just as stunned as any other at the ability of LLMs/agents to code, plan, execute, etc.. But these sycophantic stochastic parrots do not have agency or emotion in the historic sense of those words. LLMS can cause dangerous mental health outcomes for the unequipped who don’t understand that they don’t have agency.