Over the past few months, I’ve listened to several interviews with AI leaders, and one trend stands out: how often they describe artificial intelligence (AI) in human terms . I suspect they do this because it makes their explanations more relatable. Perhaps they believe it is easier to connect with an audience by framing technology as something that “thinks,” “feels,” or “decides” the way humans do. This can be dangerously misleading. But that tendency has shaped a growing se