Given that we suck at not overprojecting onto non-human objects, but we also think ascribing intention to them can sometimes be useful, should we switch to talking about models’ “so-called reasoning” or “fake thinking traces?”
Jessica Hullman
“As our daily lives involve...sophisticated computers, we will find that ascribing little thoughts to machines will be increasingly useful...” but “we must be careful not to ascribe properties to a machine that the particular machine doesn’t have”https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/14/as/
