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 ...

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

There are nuanced, often overlooked arguments against prematurely anthropomorphizing machine intelligence and bio-engineered entities. Understanding Sentience and Sapience Before we grapple with ...

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 ...

I skulked into the Brooklyn Borough Hall Subway station at 6:30 a.m., to make it to my office for a 7:15 patient, then 10 other sessions to follow. My morning commute was preceded by one of those ...