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Another way to #TalkBetterAboutAI is to try to avoid personifying language.

This is TOUGH.

Personifying stuff is so useful for explaining things. It's really hard to avoid, and often explaining things more accurately can take a couple more words. It is tough.

But I think it's worth it, too.

By talking about these tools as tools, it helps us recognize both our own agency and impact as users of the tools, but it also can help clarify the role of the people who created these tools.