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Scenario

Why politeness toward AI reveals human nature

I caught myself saying please and thank you to my voice assistant and my family laughed but I genuinely felt rude when I stopped.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Courtesy extended to artificial beings demonstrates an innate human impulse toward respect that transcends the nature of its object.

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“Where Are You with AI and consciousness — the hard question?”

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