“People tend to anthropomorphize certain objects like cars, even giving them names, because our brains are hard-wired to see personality even when it’s not possible to exist,” he say ...

I think I can trace my tendency to anthropomorphize cars back to the moment I fell in love with Herbie. I can certainly point to that movie as the moment that I fell in love with all things ...

From virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa to self-driving cars and predictive algorithms ... of our relationship with AI — a tendency to anthropomorphize these machines and project agency ...

The real issue, in other words, is the ease with which people anthropomorphize or project human features onto our technologies, rather than the machines’ actual personhood. It is easy to imagine other ...

Have you ever given your car a name? Or maybe, given polite words of encouragement to your computer when it breaks down, in the hope that it’ll start working again? If so, you’re not alone.

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