We can't help but treat AI like humans, but is that right?

Unitree humanoid robots from MIT CSAIL (actually costing around $50,000) and LLMs are encouraging people to habitually anthropomorphize them; research finds that about 70% of people remain polite toward AI. Sherry Turkle and Pat Pataranutaporn from MIT point out that this tendency may make people more trusting of chatbots, potentially leading to extreme risks such as lawsuits related to Character.AI, with the key being to keep AI within its own"Lane"。