Readers responding to recent coverage argue that chatbots can mimic emotion but lack consciousness and the capacity to suffer, warning against anthropomorphizing machine outputs. They contend that society inconsistently withholds personhood from intelligent animals while entertaining it for software, reflecting misplaced priorities. Letter writers liken AIs to actors following scripts and caution against parasocial “relationships” with bots. The thrust: don’t confuse convincing performance for sentience, and resist calls for legal personhood for code.
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