@thomasfuchs It’s has been a useful way to describe things. We use those same verbs to describe behavior of malware without any issues.
The problem arises not from the verbs themselves, but from the targeted campaign to establish a false premise that AI has agency [and will doom us all].
It’s not that these verbs imply agency, but that the pool is so poisoned that the usual verbs fail due to implied agency.
Which is a long way to say „I concede your point”.