> Humans WILL anthropomorphize the AI, humans WILL blindly trust their outputs, and humans WILL defer responsibility to them.

Sure, and humans WILL lie, murder, cheat, and steal, but we can still denounce those behaviors.

Do you want to anthropomorphize the bot? Go ahead, you have that right, and I have the right to think you're a zombie with a malfunctioning brain.

At best. A practitioner who anthropomorphizes bots should face more professional consequences

Fair, had someone at a conference mention to me that he's working on crating agents with "beliefs". Sounds incredibly similar and quite frankly very spooky