Boaz Barak Backs Anthropomorphic Language for AI Models
Harvard professor states comfort with AI terms without moral patient status.
Boaz Barak, a theoretical computer scientist at Harvard and OpenAI alignment researcher, wrote that he is perfectly comfortable using anthropomorphic language when appropriate while not treating models as moral patients. He added that debate over how to treat entities showing previously human-only characteristics will not be settled by linguistic conventions. The comment appeared as a reply on X discussing AI terminology.
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Boaz Barak Backs Anthropomorphic Language for AI Models
Harvard professor states comfort with AI terms without moral patient status.
Boaz Barak, a theoretical computer scientist at Harvard and OpenAI alignment researcher, wrote that he is perfectly comfortable using anthropomorphic language when appropriate while not treating models as moral patients. He added that debate over how to treat entities showing previously human-only characteristics will not be settled by linguistic conventions. The comment appeared as a reply on X discussing AI terminology.
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Boaz Barak@boazbaraktcsI am perfectly comfortable using anthropormorphic language when appropriate while not treating models as moral patients. But the debate on how to treat entities that exhibit characteristics that we have previously seen only in humans will not be settled by linguistic…
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BB Boaz Barak@boazbaraktcsI am perfectly comfortable using anthropormorphic language when appropriate while not treating models as moral patients. But the debate on how to treat entities that exhibit characteristics that we have previously seen only in humans will not be settled by linguistic…
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