[wpietri]

Sure, and when there's no possibility of confusion, I'm all for it. It can be lovely and poetic. Here, though, I think it's dangerous.

[JieJie]

I agree with you that there are outcomes that would be less ideal. If it helps, I refer to them as Intelligent Tools. I do prefer the "tool" metaphor (and so does Bing Chat) and I hope that companies like Microsoft rethink their "copilot" and "assistant" metaphors.

I don't think they're "dangerous" per se, I think metaphors matter and we should choose the best ones.