Technology has been creating and destroying super users for decades. Don't think that AI will be any different.

Citations: Toure-Tillery, Rima, Lili Wang. 2025. Cardio with Mr. Treadmill: How Anthropomorphizing the Means of Goal Pursuit Increases Motivation. Journal of Marketing.

Close your eyes, and picture a robot. Do you see a C-3PO-like humanoid, metallic and shiny and with a quirky personality? Do you see a Wall-E, with big, puppy-dog eyes that make you feel less alone?

As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot like science fiction. A book that people often point to is Kim Stanley ...

Anthropomorphizing a car — or a computer, a spacecraft, a house, or even a helicopter on another planet — serves the same purpose as naming a ship did all those ages ago. The technology may ...

We’re obsessed with anthropomorphizing AI. That’s the 10-dollar term for treating non-human things like they’re people. It’s not a new phenomenon. We’ve been doing it to machines for ...

Vintage microprocessors usually do something, be it just sitting in an idle loop, calculating something, or simply looking cool in a collector’s cabinet. [Lee] has come up with a vastly cooler ...