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Julie's post about AI "personality" raises all kinds of allergic responses. As I wrote in a recent paper in European Science Editing (Why artificial intelligence is not an author. European Science Editing 2025,51: e142904. https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2025.e142904): “It seems necessary to stress that AI is simply good software, and nothing more. It is not “almost conscious” – it is just code, completely unconscious and non-sentient code. Concepts such as “fairness”, “equality”, “democracy” and “rights” only apply to sentient beings, and not to software.”
As do such “human-like qualities and characteristics” (to quote Google’s AI generator) as “personality”. These likenesses are at the same level as the light bulbs in a “human-like” robot’s “eyes”, or the piezo beeper squeaking “Mama” when you tilt a doll. There is surely no intrinsic personality in the statistically generated “botfo” babble of a chatbot.
Chris
Chris Zielinski
Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, UK and
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