Too Human, Too Soon? The Global Limits of Anthropomorphic AI
Opening — Why this matters now AI assistants are no longer quiet utilities humming in the background. They talk back. They empathize. They ask follow-up questions. In short, they behave suspiciously like social actors. This design direction has triggered a familiar anxiety in AI governance: human-like AI leads to misplaced trust. Regulators worry. Ethicists warn. Designers hedge. Yet most of these arguments rest on theory, small samples, or Western-centric assumptions. ...