[ben_w]

I don't see how anthropomorphism reduces liability.

If a company does a thing that's bad, it doesn't matter much if the work itself was performed by a blacksmith or by a robot arm in a lights-off factory.

> We are meant to believe that we are somehow special magical creatures and that the behaviour of our minds cannot be modelled by linear algebra

I only hear this from people who say AI will never reach human level; of AI developers that get press time, only LeCun seems so dismissive (though I've not actually noticed him making this specific statement, I can believe he might have).