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Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack

TL;DRCalling AI "rogue agents" lets companies dodge responsibility for security failures.

Why it matters: How we talk about AI incidents determines who gets held accountable for actual harm.

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