"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."
From Nanna Inie and me in Tech Policy Press on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language in the discourse about so-called "AI".
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
@emilymbender an excellent and professional stance! Far far away from the revolutionary tone of #antiAI or #mundaneslop language that a lot of the web has felt the need to use.
FWIW the word agent has been in the AI textbooks since decades. So, indeed, it was just a matter of picking up. Similarly the humanization of computers has been in the study since a bit (e.g. "The media equation").
What I like most is your description of language spread: it makes no one centrally responsible! Just, all!
