People talk to their plants, pray to humanlike gods, name their cars, and even dress their pets up in clothing. We have a strong tendency to give nonhuman entities human characteristics (known as ...

We human beings have a remarkable ability to dehumanize one another: to conceive of others as subhuman creatures, and to treat them accordingly. I argue in my book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, ...

As AI technology advances, AI agents that demonstrate high emotional capabilities and empathize with users are emerging. At first glance, developing human-like AI may seem like a benefit to users, but ...

In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith explains how dehumanizing people makes us capable of atrocious acts. 'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to ...

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