4 papers
Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio +2
As text generation systems' outputs are increasingly anthropomorphic -- perceived as human-like -- scholars have also increasingly raised concerns about how such outputs can lead t…
AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett +3
There is a growing proliferation of AI systems designed to mimic people's behavior, work, abilities, likenesses, or humanness -- systems we dub AI automatons. Individuals, groups,…
A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede +2
Recent attention to anthropomorphism -- the attribution of human-like qualities to non-human objects or entities -- of language technologies like LLMs has sparked renewed discussio…
"I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF": Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI
Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede +2
Many state-of-the-art generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly prone to anthropomorphic behaviors, i.e., to generating outputs that are perceived to be human-like. While this…