Anthropomorphism, False Beliefs, and Conversational AIs: How Chatbots Undermine Users' Autonomy

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 10, 2025

ABSTRACT Conversational AIs (CAIs) are autonomous systems capable of engaging in natural language interactions with users. Recent advancements have enabled CAIs to engage conversations users that virtually indistinguishable from human interactions. The proliferation advanced creates a significant risk misattributing human‐like traits CAIs. Such false beliefs can occur when the CAI's nature is not disclosed and mistakenly believe they interacting human, or even if CAI disclosed, through subconscious anthropomorphism. Existing literature on anthropomorphism AI addresses instrumental harms associated I argue anthropomorphizing might be bad itself as it undermines user autonomy. My analysis focuses how anthropomorphic lead misapply behavioural norms, thereby affecting their argument will proceed follows. discuss prevalence CAIs, establish empirical claim likely form about explore existing accounts undermine autonomy outline plausible characterization identify which do so. apply this capabilities kind belief

Language: Английский

Preface to ‘Adaptive Education: Harnessing AI for Academic Progress’

Published: March 25, 2025

Language: Английский