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Originally published in 2019 on my old blog, this post has been updated in 2024 to recognise the continued presence of the MOOC Communicating with Robots and Bots...

This chapter provides an overview of ideas about anthromoporphism in relation to AI and robots. From my perspective, though, anthropomorphism is an unavoidable process by which people interpret the characteristics and behaviours of nonhuman others as-if partially human-like.

This chapter draws together a set of relational and ontological approaches that can be used to consider human–technology interactions and relations as forms of human-machine communication.

Robots and Communication is a book examining human-robot interactions as models of communication.