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I have been taken to task for calling the susceptibility to "AI" a developmental disability, that it's a form of animism, exhibited by people who never really left Paiget's Preoperational Stage. It's a clumsy comparison, and I'm glad to see the term "Epistemia" emerging in the literature to describe the inability to distinguish linguistic plausibility, and indeed faculty, from an actual operational model.

arXiv.org

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. He...

Someone else took me to task for describing anthropomorphizing LLMs as developmental disability, and as someone formally diagnosed with learning disabilities in the '80s, I'm actually angry about it. If an adult honestly ascribes personhood to a stuffed animal, we talk about intellectual challenges, but when they do it to an LLM, framing it like that's offensive. Like my inability to mask and say "oh, yeah, that's totally a sane thing" is the problem.

I wonder if the AI boom impact on RAM prices will make people give a shit about being resource conscious in their programming again.